Psalms 95

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

Come, we sing to YHWH, We shout 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.

We come before His face with thanksgiving, We shout to Him with psalms.

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

For YHWH [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.

In whose hand [are] the deep places of earth, And the strong places of hills [are] His.

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

Whose is the sea, and He made it, And His hands formed the dry land.

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

Come in, we bow ourselves, and we bend, We kneel before YHWH 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 the people of His pasture, And the flock of His hand, Today, if you listen 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.

Do not harden your heart as [in] Meribah, As [in] the day of Massah in the wilderness,

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].

Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, indeed, have seen 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.’

Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, “A people erring in heart—they! And they have not known 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!’”

Where I swore in My anger, “If they come into My rest—!”