Psalms 95
1 Come, sing to Yahweh; sing joyfully to the one who protects us [MET] and saves us!
O come, let us make songs to the Lord; sending up glad voices to the Rock of our salvation.
2 We should thank him as we come before him, and sing (joyful songs/joyfully) as we praise him.
Let us come before his face with praises; and make melody with holy songs.
3 Because Yahweh is the great God, he is a great king [who rules] over all [other] gods.
For the Lord is a great God, and a great King over all gods.
4 He rules over the whole earth, from the deepest places/caves to the highest mountains.
The deep places of the earth are in his hand; and the tops of the mountains are his.
5 The seas are his, because he made them. He is [also] the one who [SYN] formed/made the dry land.
The sea is his, and he made it; and the dry land was formed by his hands.
6 We should come, worship, and bow down before him. We should kneel before Yahweh, the one who made us.
O come, let us give worship, falling down on our knees before the Lord our Maker.
7 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.
For he is our God; and we are the people to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to his voice!
8 He says, “Do not become stubborn [IDM] like [your ancestors] did at Meribah, and like [they did] at Massah in the desert.
Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;
9 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].
When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.
10 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.’
For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;
11 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!’”
And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.
