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Psalm 95

Worship and Warning

Worship

Come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord.
Let us give a loud shout to the Rock who saves us.
Let us approach his presence with thanksgiving.
With music we will shout to him.
For the Lord is the great God
and the great King above all gods.
He holds the unexplored places of the earth in his hand,
and the peaks of the mountains belong to him.
The sea belongs to him, for he made it,
and his hands formed the dry land.

Come, let us bow down. Let us revere him.
Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker,
for he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture
and the flock in his hand.

Warning

Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as they did at Meribah,
as they did that day at Massah in the wilderness,
where your fathers challenged me
and tested me though they had seen what I had done.
10 For forty years I was disgusted with that generation,
and I said, “They are a people who have hearts that stray.
They do not acknowledge my ways.”
11 So I swore in my anger,
“They shall never enter my resting place.”

Psalm 95

Come,(A) let us sing for joy(B) to the Lord;
    let us shout aloud(C) to the Rock(D) of our salvation.
Let us come before him(E) with thanksgiving(F)
    and extol him with music(G) and song.

For the Lord is the great God,(H)
    the great King(I) above all gods.(J)
In his hand are the depths of the earth,(K)
    and the mountain peaks belong to him.
The sea is his, for he made it,
    and his hands formed the dry land.(L)

Come, let us bow down(M) in worship,(N)
    let us kneel(O) before the Lord our Maker;(P)
for he is our God
    and we are the people of his pasture,(Q)
    the flock under his care.

Today, if only you would hear his voice,
“Do not harden your hearts(R) as you did at Meribah,[a](S)
    as you did that day at Massah[b] in the wilderness,(T)
where your ancestors tested(U) me;
    they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
10 For forty years(V) I was angry with that generation;
    I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,(W)
    and they have not known my ways.’(X)
11 So I declared on oath(Y) in my anger,
    ‘They shall never enter my rest.’”(Z)

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 95:8 Meribah means quarreling.
  2. Psalm 95:8 Massah means testing.