Praise to the Lord , and Warning against Unbelief.

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O come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord;
Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.
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Let us come before His presence with a song of thanksgiving;
Let us shout joyfully to Him with songs.
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For the Lord is a great God
And a great King above all gods,
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In whose hand are the depths of the earth;
The peaks of the mountains are His also.
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The sea is His, for He made it [by His command];
And His hands formed the dry land.(A)
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O come, let us worship and bow down,
Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker [in reverent praise and prayer].
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For He is our God
And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.
Today, if you will hear His voice,(B)
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Do not harden your hearts and become spiritually dull as at Meribah [the place of strife],
And as at Massah [the place of testing] in the wilderness,(C)
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“When your fathers tested Me,
They tried Me, even though they had seen My work [of miracles].
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“For forty years I was grieved and disgusted with that generation,
And I said, ‘They are a people who err in their heart,
And they do not acknowledge or regard My ways.’
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“Therefore I swore [an oath] in My wrath,
‘They absolutely shall not enter My rest [the land of promise].’”(D)