Do Not Harden Your Hearts (Hebrews 3:7–11)
1 UST { Everyone,} come and let us sing to Yahweh; let us shout 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 UST Let us thank him as we come before him and sing joyful psalms as we praise him. BSB BSB: Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him in song.
3 UST Because Yahweh is a great God. He is a great king who rules over all other spirit beings. BSB BSB: For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.
4 UST He controls the whole earth. From the deepest places to the highest mountains, it belongs to him. BSB BSB: In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him.
5 UST The seas are his because he is the one who made them. He also made the dry land. BSB BSB: The sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land.
6 UST { Everyone,} come, let us worship him and bow down{ before him}. Let us kneel before Yahweh, who is the one who made us. BSB BSB: O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
7 UST { Do this} because 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 UST He says,“Do not become stubborn as your ancestors did at Meribah, and as they did long ago 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 UST There your ancestors tested whether I would continue to be patient with them. They wanted to see if they could do evil things and not have me punish them. They did this even though they had seen me perform many miracles. BSB BSB: where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
10 UST For 40 years I was angry with those people. I said about them,‘Those people are unreliable. They completely 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 UST 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.