Psalm

A Call to Worship and Obey

95 
Come, let us sing for joy to Yahweh;

let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving;

with songs let us shout joyfully to him.

For Yahweh is the[a] great God,

and the great king over all gods,

in whose hand are the unexplored places[b] of the earth,

and the heights of the mountains are his,

to whom belongs the sea that he made, [c]

and the dry land that his hands formed.

Come in, let us worship and bow down;

let us kneel before Yahweh, our maker.

For he is our God,

and we are the people of his pasture

and the sheep of his hand.

Today[d] if you will hear his voice:[e]

“Do not harden your heart as at Meribah,

as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

when your ancestors[f] tried me.

They put me to the test,

even though they had seen my work.

10 For forty years I loathed that generation,

and said, ‘They are a people whose heart wanders.

And my ways they do not know.’

11 Therefore I swore in my anger,

‘They shall surely not enter into my rest.’”

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 95:3 The Hebrew does not have the definite article used twice in the translation of this verse
  2. Psalm 95:4 Or “the deep places”
  3. Psalm 95:5 Hebrew “and he made it”
  4. Psalm 95:7 Literally “The day”
  5. Psalm 95:7 Or “If only you would hear his voice today”
  6. Psalm 95:9 Or “fathers”