1Come, sing to Yahweh; sing joyfully to the one who protects us [MET] and saves us!

2We should thank him as we come before him, and sing ◄joyful songs/joyfully► as we praise him.

3Because Yahweh is the great God, he is a great king who rules over all other gods.

4He rules over the whole earth, from the deepest places/caves to the highest mountains.

5The seas are his, because he made them. He is also the one who [SYN] formed/made the dry land.

6We should come, worship, and bow down before him. We should kneel before Yahweh, the one who made us.

7He is our God, and we are the people whom he takes care of [MET];
like sheep that a shepherd takes care of.
Today, listen to what Yahweh is saying to you.

8He says, “Do not become stubborn [IDM] like your ancestors did at Meribah,
and like they did at Massah in the desert.

9There your ancestors ◄wanted to see/tried to determine► if they could do many very evil things without my punishing them. Even though they had seen me perform many miracles, they tested whether I would continue to be patient with them.

10For 40 years I was angry with those people, and I said, ‘Those people say that they want to please me, but they do things that I detest.
They refuse to obey my commands.’

11So because I was very angry, I solemnly said/declared about them: ‘They will never enter the land of Canaan where I would have allowed them to rest!’”