Psalms 95 WEB
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.
1Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!
2Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!
3For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods.
4In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his.
5The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.
6Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,
7for 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!
8Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
9when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
10Forty 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.”
11Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”
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