Do Not Harden Your Hearts (Hebrews 3:7–11)
1 CPDV The Praise of a Canticle, of David himself. Come, let us exult in the Lord. Let us shout joyfully to God, our Savior. BSB BSB: Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout to the Rock of our salvation!
2 CPDV Let us anticipate his presence with confession, and let us sing joyfully to him with psalms. BSB BSB: Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him in song.
3 CPDV For the Lord is a great God and a great King over all gods. BSB BSB: For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.
4 CPDV For in his hand are all the limits of the earth, 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 CPDV 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 CPDV Come, let us adore and fall prostrate, and let us weep before the Lord who made us. BSB BSB: O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
7 CPDV For he is the Lord 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 CPDV If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts: BSB BSB: do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
9 CPDV as in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness, where your fathers tempted me; they tested me, though they had seen my works. BSB BSB: where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
10 CPDV For forty years, I was offended by that generation, and I said: These have always strayed in heart. 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 CPDV And these have not known my ways. So I swore 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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