Psalms 95

1 O COME, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

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

2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, let us make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

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

3 For the LORD is a great God, and 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 his also.

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

5 The sea is his, and he made it; and 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 O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD 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, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, Oh that ye 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 Harden not 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, proved 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 years long was I grieved with [that] generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and 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 Wherefore I sware in my wrath, that they should not 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!’”