Transliteration / Hebrew


L’khu n’ran’nah ladonai,
nari-ah l’tzur yisheinu.
N’kadmah fanav b’todah,
bizmirot nari-ah lo.
Ki El gadol Adonai, u-melekh gadol al kol elohim.
Asher b’yado mehk’rei aretz, v’to-afot harim lo.
Asher lo hayam v’hu asahu, v’yabeshet yadav yatzaru.
Bo-u nishtahaveh v’nikhraah,
nivr’khah lifnei Adonai oseinu.
Ki hu eloheinu va-anahnu am marito v’tzon yado, hayom im b’kolo tishma-u.
Al takshu I’vavkhem kimrivah, k’yom masah bamidbar.
Asher nisuni avoteikhem, b’hanuni gam rau fo-oli.
Arba-im shanah akut b’dor, va-omar am to-ei leivav hem, v’hem lo yadu d’rakhai.
Asher nishbati v’api, im y’vo-un el m’nuhati.

לְכוּ נְרַנְּנָה לַיהֹוָה נָרִֽיעָה לְצוּר יִשְׁעֵֽנוּ:
נְקַדְּמָה פָנָיו בְּתוֹדָה בִּזְמִרוֹת נָרִֽיעַ לוֹ:
כִּי אֵל גָּדוֹל יְהֹוָה וּמֶֽלֶךְ גָּדוֹל עַל־כָּל־אֱלֹהִים:
אֲשֶׁר בְּיָדוֹ מֶחְקְרֵי־אָֽרֶץ וְתוֹעֲפוֹת הָרִים לוֹ:
אֲשֶׁר־לוֹ הַיָּם וְהוּא עָשָֽׂהוּ וְיַבֶּֽשֶׁת יָדָיו יָצָֽרוּ:
בֹּֽאוּ נִשְׁתַּחֲוֶה וְנִכְרָֽעָה נִבְרְכָה לִפְנֵי־יְהֹוָה עֹשֵֽׂנוּ:
כִּי הוּא אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ וַאֲנַֽחְנוּ עַם מַרְעִיתוֹ וְצֹאן יָדוֹ הַיּוֹם אִם־בְּקֹלוֹ תִשְׁמָֽעוּ:
אַל־תַּקְשׁוּ לְבַבְכֶם כִּמְרִיבָה כְּיוֹם מַסָּה בַּמִּדְבָּר:
אֲשֶׁר נִסּֽוּנִי אֲבוֹתֵיכֶם בְּחָנֽוּנִי גַּם־רָאוּ פָעֳלִי:
אַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה אָקוּט בְּדוֹר וָאֹמַר עַם תֹּעֵי לֵבָב הֵם וְהֵם לֹא־יָדְעוּ דְרָכָי:
אֲשֶׁר־נִשְׁבַּֽעְתִּי בְאַפִּי אִם־יְבֹאוּן אֶל־מְנוּחָתִי:

Translation (Lev Shalem)


LET US GO and sing to ADONAI, let us trumpet praise to our protector.
Filled with thanks, let us greet God, raising our voice in song.
Great is ADONAI,
a greater sovereign than all other deities.
God’s hands formed the earth’s deep, mountain crests, too, are God’s work; the sea is God’s, for God made it; dry land was fashioned by God’s hands.
Come, then, let us bow and kneel, let us bend our knees,
in the presence of ADONAI, who formed us.

For Adonal is our God
and we are God’s flock, sheep in God’s caring hands.
If only you would listen today to God’s voice, and not become hard-hearted like the people at Merivah, like that time at Massah—in the desert, when your ancestors tried Me, and tested Me, though they had seen what I had wrought.
For forty years I was troubled by that generation, and I said, “These are a people whose hearts have gone astray; they do not know My way,” so, in anger, I swore they would not enter My rest.