Let Us Sing Songs of Praise
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Oh come, let us sing to the Lord;
let us f make a joyful noise to g the rock of our salvation!
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Let us h come into his presence with thanksgiving;
let us f make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
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For the Lord is i a great God,
and a great King j above all gods.
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In his hand are the depths of the earth;
the heights of the mountains are his also.
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The sea is his, for k he made it,
and his hands formed k the dry land.
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Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
let us l kneel before the Lord, our m Maker!
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For he is our n God,
and we are the people of his o pasture,
and the sheep of his hand.
p Today, if you q hear his voice,
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r do not harden your hearts, as at s Meribah,
as on the day at t Massah in the wilderness,
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when your fathers put me to the u test
and put me to the proof, though they had seen my v work.
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w For forty years I loathed that generation
and said, "They are a people who go astray in their heart,
and they have not known x my ways."
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Therefore I y swore in my wrath,
"They shall not enter z my rest."
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Psalms 66:1
Shout for joy to God, all the earth.
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Psalms 89:26
He shall cry to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.
Psalms 94:22
But the Lord has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge.
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Micah 6:6
With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
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Psalms 95:1
Oh come, let us sing to the Lord ; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
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Psalms 93:4
Mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, the Lord on high is mighty!
Psalms 135:5
For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.
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Psalms 86:8
There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours.
Psalms 96:4
For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.
Psalms 97:9
For you, O Lord, are most high over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.
2 Chronicles 2:5
The house that I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.
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Genesis 1:9 - 10
And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so.
Jonah 1:9
And he said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.
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Genesis 1:9 - 10
And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so.
Jonah 1:9
And he said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.
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2 Chronicles 6:13
Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the court, and he stood on it. Then he knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven.
Daniel 6:10
When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.
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Psalms 100:3
Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Psalms 149:2
Let Israel be glad in his Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King!
Deuteronomy 32:6
Do you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
Deuteronomy 32:18
You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
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Psalms 48:14
That this is God, our God forever and ever. He will guide us forever.
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Psalms 74:1
O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
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Hebrews 3:7 - 11
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, if you hear his voice.
Hebrews 3:15
As it is said, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.
Hebrews 4:7
Again he appoints a certain day, "Today," saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.
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Numbers 14:22
None of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice.
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Exodus 9:34
But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet again and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
1 Samuel 6:6
Why should you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had dealt severely with them, did they not send the people away, and they departed?
2 Chronicles 36:13
He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord, the God of Israel.
Proverbs 28:14
Blessed is the one who fears the Lord always, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity.
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Exodus 17:7
And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the Lord by saying, "Is the Lord among us or not?
Numbers 20:13
These are the waters of Meribah, where the people of Israel quarreled with the Lord, and through them he showed himself holy.
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Exodus 17:7
And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the Lord by saying, "Is the Lord among us or not?
Deuteronomy 6:16
You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.
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1 Corinthians 10:9
We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents.
Psalms 78:18
They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.
Psalms 78:41
They tested God again and again and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 78:56
Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God and did not keep his testimonies.
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Psalms 90:16
Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children.
Numbers 14:22
None of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice.
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Acts 7:36
This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.
Acts 13:18
And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Deuteronomy 9:7
Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.
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Psalms 81:13
Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
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Numbers 14:23
Shall see the land that I swore to give to thei...
Numbers 14:28
Say to them, 'As I live, declares the Lord, wha...
Numbers 14:30
Not one shall come into the land where I swore ...
Deuteronomy 1:35
Not one of these men of this evil generation sh...
Hebrews 3:11
As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter m...
Hebrews 4:3
For we who have believed enter that rest, as he...
Hebrews 4:5
And again in this passage he said, "They shall ...
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Deuteronomy 12:9
For you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance that the Lord your God is giving you.
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