Psalms 95 YLT
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, we sing to Jehovah, We shout to the rock of our salvation.
2We come before His face with thanksgiving, With psalms we shout to Him.
3For a great God is Jehovah, And a great king over all gods.
4In whose hand are the deep places of earth, And the strong places of hills are His.
5Whose is the sea, and He made it, And His hands formed the dry land.
6Come in, we bow ourselves, and we bend, We kneel before Jehovah our Maker.
7For He is our God, and we the people of His pasture, And the flock of His hand, To-day, if to His voice ye hearken,
8Harden not your heart as in Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
9Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.
10Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, `A people erring in heart--they! And they have not known My ways:'
11Where I sware in Mine anger, `If they come in unto My rest--!'
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