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1 Come, let's sing for joy to the Lord! Let's shout in triumph to the rock of our salvation!
2 Let's go before him with thanksgiving! Let's sing loudly to him in celebration!
3 For the Lord is a great God, a great king above all gods.
4 He rules over the depths of the earth and the heights of the mountains.
5 The sea is his, because he made it; the dry land, because he formed it.
6 Come, let's enter in*Speaking of entering into the Temple to worship. and worship, let's kneel before the Lord our Creator.
7 For he is our God, and we are the people he looks after like a shepherd, the flock he cares for. If you hear his voice calling you today,
8 don't have a hard-hearted attitude,†“Have a hard-hearted attitude”: literally, “do not harden your hearts.” “as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the desert,
9 when your forefathers provoked me, testing my patience, even though they had seen everything I'd done.
10 For forty years I was disgusted with that generation, and I said, ‘They are people who are unfaithful to me in their minds, and they refuse to accept my ways.’
11 So in my frustration I vowed, ‘They will certainly not enter my rest.’ ”‡“My rest,” referring to the Promised Land.

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*95:6 Speaking of entering into the Temple to worship.

†95:8 “Have a hard-hearted attitude”: literally, “do not harden your hearts.”

‡95:11 “My rest,” referring to the Promised Land.

© 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher