Psalms 95
1 O come, let us make songs to the Lord; sending up glad voices 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 face with praises; and make melody with holy songs.
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 over all gods.
Because Yahweh is the great God, he is a great king [who rules] over all [other] gods.
4 The deep places of the earth are in his hand; and the tops of the mountains are 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; and the dry land was formed by his hands.
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 give worship, falling down on our knees 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 to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to 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 Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;
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 put me to the test and saw my power and 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 this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of 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 And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of 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!’”
