A Call to Worship and Obedience
1O come, let us sing to the Lord;
let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!*
2Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;
let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!*
3For the Lord is a great God
and a great King above all gods.*
4In his hand are the depths of the earth;
the heights of the mountains are his also.
5The sea is his, for he made it,
and the dry land, which his hands have formed.*
6O come, let us worship and bow down;
let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!*
7For he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture
and the sheep of his hand.
O that today you would listen to his voice!*
8Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,*
9when your ancestors tested me
and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.*
10For forty years I loathed that generation
and said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they do not regard my ways.”*
11Therefore in my anger I swore,
“They shall not enter my rest.”*