Psalms 95
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O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
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Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
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For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
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In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
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The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
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O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
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For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
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Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
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When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
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Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
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Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
Arcana Coelestia # 6479
6479. Some not so upright spirits who were once with me for quite a time were constantly introducing doubts that were based on the illusions of the senses and went against the idea that all things can flow in from a single source, and so from the Lord. But I told them that so many doubts could not be removed in a short space of time, on account of the illusions of the senses which had to be dispelled first and on account of their lack of knowledge of countless things which they needed to know first. Indeed I told them that with people who have a negative frame of mind, that is, who are ruled through and through by a negative attitude, doubts cannot by any means be removed; for with these people one small difficulty has more validity than a thousand proofs. With them one small difficulty is like a grain of sand placed right in front of the pupil of the eye, and although it is only a single grain and very tiny it nevertheless blocks one's entire field of vision. But people who have an affirmative frame of mind, that is, who are ruled through and through by an affirmative attitude, turn away small difficulties which are based on the illusions of the senses and go against truths; and any things they cannot grasp they cast aside, saying that they do not yet understand them, and in so doing hold fast to their belief in the truth. But the spirits mentioned above paid little attention to what they were told because of their negative frame of mind.
