< Psalms 95 >

1 Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout 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 enter His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him in song.
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, 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 depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him.
He rules over the whole earth, from the deepest places/caves to the highest mountains.
5 The sea is His, for 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, the sheep under His care. Today, if you 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 do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at 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 where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen 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 For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, 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 So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter 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!’”

< Psalms 95 >