A Call to Worship and Obey

1 Come, let us sing for joy to Yahweh;

let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.

2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving;

with songs let us shout joyfully to him.

3 For Yahweh is thegreat God,

and the great king over all gods,

4 in whose hand are the unexplored placesof the earth,

and the heights of the mountains are his,

5 to whom belongs the sea that he made,

and the dry land that his hands formed.

6 Come in, let us worship and bow down;

let us kneel before Yahweh, our maker.

7 For he is our God,

and we are the people of his pasture

and the sheep of his hand.

Todayif you will hear his voice:

8 “Do not harden your heart as at Meribah,

as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

9 when your ancestorstried me.

They put me to the test,

even though they had seen my work.

10 For forty years I loathed that generation,

and said, ‘They are a people whose heart wanders.

And my ways they do not know.’

11 Therefore I swore in my anger,

‘They shall surely not enter into my rest.’ ”