Do Not Harden Your Hearts (Hebrews 3:7–11)
1 UDB Come, sing to Yahweh; sing joyfully to the one who protects us and saves us! BSB BSB: Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout to the Rock of our salvation!
2 UDB We should thank him as we come before him and sing joyful songs as we praise him. BSB BSB: Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him in song.
3 UDB Because Yahweh is a great God, he is a great king who rules over all other gods. BSB BSB: For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.
4 UDB He rules over the whole earth from the deepest places to the highest mountains. BSB BSB: In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him.
5 UDB The seas are his because he made them. He is the one who made the dry land. BSB BSB: The sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land.
6 UDB We should come, worship, and bow down before him. We should kneel before Yahweh, the one who made us. BSB BSB: O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
7 UDB He is our God, and we are the people whom he protects, like sheep that a shepherd takes care of. I desire that today you may hear what Yahweh is saying to you. 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 UDB He says, "Do not become stubborn as your ancestors did at Meribah, and as they did at Massah in the wilderness. BSB BSB: do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
9 UDB There your ancestors wanted to see if they could do 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. BSB BSB: where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
10 UDB For forty years I was angry with those people, and I said, 'Those people are unreliable. They refuse to obey my commands.' 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 UDB So because I was very angry, I solemnly said about them: 'They will never enter the land of Canaan where I would have allowed them to rest!'" BSB BSB: So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
Select verses for actions: Enter goes to them and Escape comes back.