O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
2Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. {come...: Heb. prevent his face}
3For the LORD {is} a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4In his hand {are} the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills {is} his also. {In...: Heb. In whose} {the strength...: or, the heights of the hills are his}
5The sea {is} his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry {land}. {The sea...: Heb. Whose the sea is}
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. To day if ye will hear his voice,
8Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, {and} as {in} the day of temptation in the wilderness: {provocation: Heb. contention}
9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
10Forty years long was I grieved with {this} generation, and said, It {is} a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
11Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. {that...: Heb. if they enter into my rest}