Psalms 95

1 Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!

Come, sing to Yahweh; sing joyfully to the one who protects us [MET] and saves us!

2 Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!

We should thank him as we come before him, and sing (joyful songs/joyfully) as we praise him.

3 For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods.

Because Yahweh is the great God, he is a great king [who rules] over all [other] gods.

4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his.

He rules over the whole earth, from the deepest places/caves to the highest mountains.

5 The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.

The seas are his, because he made them. He is [also] the one who [SYN] formed/made the dry land.

6 Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,

We should come, worship, and bow down before him. We should kneel before Yahweh, the one who made us.

7 for 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!

He is our God, and we are the people whom he takes care of [MET]; like sheep [that a shepherd] takes care of. Today, listen to what Yahweh is saying to you.

8 Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

He says, “Do not become stubborn [IDM] like [your ancestors] did at Meribah, and like [they did] at Massah in the desert.

9 when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.

There your ancestors (wanted to see/tried to determine) if they could do many very evil things [without my punishing them]. Even though they had seen me perform [many] miracles, they tested whether I [would continue to be patient with them].

10 Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “They are a people who err in their heart. They have not known my ways.”

For 40 years I was angry with those people, and I said, ‘Those people say that they want to please me, but they do things that I detest. They refuse to obey my commands.’

11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”

So because I was very angry, I solemnly said/declared about them: ‘They will never enter [the land of Canaan] where I would have allowed them to rest!’”