Online Bible: New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

1 O come let us cry out joyfully to Jehovah!
Let us shout in triumph to our Rock of salvation.

2 Let us come before his person with thanksgiving;
Let us with melodies shout in triumph to him.

3 For Jehovah is a great God
And a great King over all [other] gods,

4 He in whose hand are the inmost depths of the earth
And to whom the peaks of the mountains belong;

5 To whom the sea, which he himself made, belongs
And whose own hands formed the dry land itself.

6 O come in, let us worship and bow down;
Let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker.

7 For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasturage and the sheep of his hand.
Today if YOU people listen to his own voice,

8 Do not harden YOUR heart as at Mer´i·bah,
As in the day of Mas´sah in the wilderness,

9 When YOUR forefathers put me to the proof;
They examined me, they also saw my activity.

10 For forty years I kept feeling a loathing toward [that] generation,
And I proceeded to say:
“They are a people wayward at heart,
And they themselves have not come to know my ways”;

11 Concerning whom I swore in my anger:
“They shall not enter into my resting-place.”