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;

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,

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:

‘You will never enter the land

where I would have given you rest.’ ”