Do Not Harden Your Hearts (Hebrews 3:7–11)
1 Brenton The praise of a Song by David. Come, let us exult in the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to God our Saviour. BSB BSB: Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout to the Rock of our salvation!
2 Brenton Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with psalms. BSB BSB: Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him in song.
3 Brenton For the Lord is a great God, and a great king over all gods: for the Lord will not cast off his people. BSB BSB: For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.
4 Brenton For the ends of the earth are in his hands; and the heights of the mountains are his. BSB BSB: In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him.
5 Brenton For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. BSB BSB: The sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land.
6 Brenton Come, let us worship and fall down before him; and weep before the Lord that made us. BSB BSB: O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
7 Brenton For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. BSB BSB: For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
8 Brenton To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of irritation in the wilderness: BSB BSB: do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
9 Brenton where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works. BSB BSB: where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
10 Brenton Forty years was I grieved with this generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known my ways. BSB BSB: For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
11 Brenton So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest. BSB BSB: So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
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