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Come, let's sing for joy to the Lord! Let's shout in triumph to the rock of our salvation!
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Let's go before him with thanksgiving! Let's sing loudly to him in celebration!
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For the Lord is a great God, a great king above all gods.
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He rules over the depths of the earth and the heights of the mountains.
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The sea is his, because he made it; the dry land, because he formed it.
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Come, let's enter in* and worship, let's kneel before the Lord our Creator.
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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,
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don't have a hard-hearted attitude,* “as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the desert,
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when your forefathers provoked me, testing my patience, even though they had seen everything I'd done.
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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.’
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So in my frustration I vowed, ‘They will certainly not enter my rest.’”*