let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before him with thanksgiving
and extol him with music and song.
For the Lord is the great God,
the great King above all gods.
In his hand are the depths of the earth,
and the mountain peaks belong to him.
The sea is his, for he made it,
and his hands formed the dry land.
the great King above all gods.
In his hand are the depths of the earth,
and the mountain peaks belong to him.
The sea is his, for he made it,
and his hands formed the dry land.
Come, let us bow down in worship,
let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;
for he is our God
and we are the people of his pasture,
the flock under his care.
let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;
for he is our God
and we are the people of his pasture,
the flock under his care.
“Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,
as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness,
where your ancestors tested me;
they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
For forty years I was angry with that generation;
I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they have not known my ways.’
So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’”
Listen. Sing for joy in the wee hours of the morning or when you first wake up.
Linguistic Aside
* This psalm is a Venite. Early in the morning worshippers are encouraged to encourage one another to praise him (v1-7) and to urge us to listen to God's voice (v8-11).
* In Hebrews 3 and 4, this psalm is quoted as a warning to disobedient hearts who do not listen. Hebrew 3:12-13 "Encourage one another daily as long as it is called Today, so that none of you maybe hardened by sin's deceitfulness.
* Synthetic parallelism: the second line develops the thought of the first, but without quoting words from the first line (as does climactic parallelism)
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