A Song of Praise

¹Come, let us praise the Lord !

Let us sing for joy to God, who protects us!

²Let us come before him with thanksgiving

and sing joyful songs of praise.

³For the Lord is a mighty God,

a mighty king over all the gods.

⁴He rules over the whole earth,

from the deepest caves to the highest hills.

⁵He rules over the sea, which he made;

the land also, which he himself formed.

⁶Come, let us bow down and worship him;

let us kneel before the Lord , our Maker!

⁷He is our God;[#He 3.7-11; #He 3.15; 4.7]

we are the people he cares for,

the flock for which he provides.

Listen today to what he says:

⁸“Don't be stubborn, as your ancestors were at Meribah,[#Ex 17.1-7; Nu 20.2-13]

as they were that day in the desert at Massah.

⁹There they put me to the test and tried me,

although they had seen what I did for them.

¹⁰For forty years I was disgusted with those people.

I said, ‘How disloyal they are!

They refuse to obey my commands.’

¹¹I was angry and made a solemn promise:[#Nu 14.20-23; Dt 1.34-36; He 4.3,5; Dt 12.9,10]

‘You will never enter the land

where I would have given you rest.’”