When we come to praise God, let us prepare to listen to his word; and try to do his will in daily life.
1Come, let us sing to the Lord,
let us make a joyful sound
to the Rock of our salvation.
2Let us come before him giving thanks,
with music and songs of praise.
3For the Lord is the great God,
the great King above all gods.
4In his hand are the depths of the earth
and the mountain heights.
5The sea is his, for he made it,
and his hand shaped the dry land.
6Come and worship; let us bow down,
kneel before the Lord, our Maker.
7He is our God, and we his people;
the flock he leads and pastures.
Would that today you heard his voice!
8Do not be stubborn, as at Meribah,
in the desert, on that day at Massah,
9when your ancestors challenged me,
and they put me to the test.
10For forty years they wearied me and I said,
“They are a people of inconstant heart;
they have not known my ways.”
11So I declared on oath in my anger,
“Never shall they enter my rest.”
