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¹ Come, let us praise the Lord!
    Let us sing for joy to God, who protects us!
² Let us come before him with thanksgiving
    and sing joyful songs of praise.
³ For the Lord is a mighty God,
    a mighty king over all the gods.
⁴ He rules over the whole earth,
    from the deepest caves to the highest hills.
⁵ He rules over the sea, which he made;
    the land also, which he himself formed.

⁶ Come, let us bow down and worship him;
    let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
^7 (a)He is our God;
    we are the people he cares for,
    the flock for which he provides.

Listen today to what he says:
^8 (b)"Don't be stubborn, as your ancestors were at Meribah,
    as they were that day in the desert at Massah.
⁹ There they put me to the test and tried me,
    although they had seen what I did for them.
¹⁰ For forty years I was disgusted with those people.
    I said, ‘How disloyal they are!
    They refuse to obey my commands.'
^11 (c)I was angry and made a solemn promise:
    ‘You will never enter the land
    where I would have given you rest.'"