Psalms 95
Psalm 95 calls the people to joyful worship, presenting the Lord as the great King, creator of land and sea, and shepherd of his people. Its closing warning recalls Israel's rebellion in the wilderness to stress that hardening the heart against God's voice leads to estrangement from his ways and loss of his rest.
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1 Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!
2 Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!
3 For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his.
5 The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.
6 Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,
7 for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
8 Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
9 when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
10 Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”
11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”