The passage begins with an invitation to praise and worship God, acknowledging His greatness and power over creation. It then shifts to a call for humility and repentance, urging the people to listen to God's voice and not harden their hearts as their ancestors did in the wilderness. The passage recalls how the previous generation's disobedience and lack of faith led to God's wrath and their exclusion from His rest.
1 The Praise of a Canticle, of David himself. Come, let us exult in the Lord. Let us shout joyfully to God, our Savior 2 Let us anticipate his presence with confession, and let us sing joyfully to him with psalms 3 For the Lord is a great God and a great King over all gods 4 For in his hand are all the limits of the earth, and the heights of the mountains are his 5 For the sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry land 6 Come, let us adore and fall prostrate, and let us weep before the Lord who made us 7 For he is the Lord our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand 8 If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts 9 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 10 For forty years, I was offended by that generation, and I said: These have always strayed in heart 11 And these have not known my ways. So I swore in my wrath: They shall not enter into my rest