Do Not Harden Your Hearts (Hebrews 3:7–11)
1 ULT Come, let us sing to Yahweh; let us shout to the rock of our salvation! BSB BSB: Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout to the Rock of our salvation!
2 ULT Let us meet his face with thanksgiving; with psalms, let us sing joyfully to him. BSB BSB: Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him in song.
3 ULT For Yahweh{ is} a great God and a great king above all gods, BSB BSB: For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.
4 ULT who in his hand{ has} the depths of the earth; and the heights of the mountains{ are} to him, BSB BSB: In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him.
5 ULT who to him{ is} the sea, and he, 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 ULT Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel to the face of Yahweh, our maker: BSB BSB: O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
7 ULT For he{ is} our God, and we{ are} the people of his pasture and the flock of his hand. Today— if only you would listen to his voice! 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 ULT “Do not harden your heart, as{ at} Meribah, as{ on} the day of 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 ULT where your fathers tested me, tried me, though they had seen my deeds. BSB BSB: where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
10 ULT For 40 years I was angry with the generation and said,‘They are a people wandering of heart and they, 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 ULT Therefore I vowed in my nose,‘if they enter into my rest.’” BSB BSB: So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
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