Psalms 95 WBT
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.
1O come, let us sing to the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
2Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.
3For the LORD [is] a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4In his hand [are] the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills [is] his also.
5The sea [is] his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry [land].
6O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
7For 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,
8Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, [and] as [in] the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
10Forty 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:
11To whom I swore in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.
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