Psalms 95 GNV
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 vs reioyce vnto the Lord: let vs sing aloude vnto the rocke of our saluation.
2Let vs come before his face with praise: let vs sing loude vnto him with Psalmes.
3For the Lord is a great God, and a great King aboue all gods.
4In whose hande are the deepe places of the earth, and the heightes of the mountaines are his:
5To whome the Sea belongeth: for hee made it, and his handes formed the dry land.
6Come, let vs worship and fall downe, and kneele before the Lord our maker.
7For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheepe of his hande: to day, if ye will heare his voyce,
8Harden not your heart, as in Meribah, and as in the day of Massah in the wildernesse.
9Where your fathers tempted me, proued me, though they had seene my worke.
10Fourtie yeeres haue I contended with this generation, and said, They are a people that erre in heart, for they haue not knowen my wayes.
11Wherefore I sware in my wrath, saying, Surely they shall not enter into my rest.
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