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Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord. Let us shout out praises to our Protector who delivers us.
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Let us enter his presence with thanksgiving. Let us shout out to him in celebration.
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For the Lord is a great God, a great king who is superior to all gods.
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The depths of the earth are in his hand, and the mountain peaks belong to him.
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The sea is his, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land.
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Come, let us bow down and worship. Let us kneel before the Lord, our Creator.
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For he is our God; we are the people of his pasture, the sheep he owns. Today, if only you would obey him.
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He says, “Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,
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where your ancestors challenged my authority and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.
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For 40 years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said, ‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’
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So I made a vow in my anger, ‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”