Study Desk

Come,^(a) let us sing for joy^(b) to the Lord ; let us shout aloud^(c) to the Rock^(d) of our salvation.

Let us come before him^(e) with thanksgiving^(f) and extol him with music^(g) and song.

For the Lord is the great God,^(h) the great King⁽ⁱ⁾ above all gods.^(j)

In his hand are the depths of the earth,^(k) and the mountain peaks belong to him.

The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.^(l)

Come, let us bow down^(m) in worship,⁽ⁿ⁾ let us kneel^(o) before the Lord our Maker;^(p)

for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture,^(q) the flock under his care. Today, if only you would hear his voice,

"Do not harden your hearts^(r) as you did at Meribah,^[a](s) as you did that day at Massah^[b] in the wilderness,^(t)

where your ancestors tested^(u) me; they tried me, though they had seen what I did.

For forty years^(v) I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,^(w) and they have not known my ways.'^(x)

So I declared on oath^(y) in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.'"^(z)