Psalms 95 DBY
Summary: A call to worship opening with exuberant invitation — "O come, let us sing unto the LORD... let us come before his presence with thanksgiving" (v. 1-2) — praising God as maker of the sea, the dry land, and "the sheep of his hand" (v. 7). The tone turns sharply to warning in the second half, recalling Israel's rebellion in the wilderness: "Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: when your fathers tempted me, proved me" (v. 8-9), referring to the incidents at Meribah and Massah. It closes with God's oath that the unbelieving generation would not enter his rest, a warning later cited at length in the New Testament book of Hebrews.
1Come, let us sing aloud to Jehovah, let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation;
2Let us come before his face with thanksgiving; let us shout aloud unto him with psalms.
3For Jehovah is a greatGod, and a great king above allgods.
4In his hand are the deep places of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also:
5The sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry [land].
6Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker.
7For he is ourGod; and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. To-day if ye hear his voice,
8Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as [in] the day of Massah, in the wilderness;
9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
10Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways;
11So that I swore in mine anger, that they should not enter into my rest.
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