Psalms 95
1 O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us shout joyfully 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, and shout joyfully unto him with psalms.
We should thank him as we come before him, and sing (joyful songs/joyfully) as we praise him.
3 For a great God is the Lord, 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 whose hand are the deep places of the earth; and whose are the heights of mountains;
He rules over the whole earth, from the deepest places/caves to the highest mountains.
5 Whose is the sea, and who hath made it; and whose hands have 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 Oh come, let us prostrate ourselves 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 flock of his hand: yea, this day, if ye will hearken 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 Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as on the day of the temptation 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, although they had seen my doing.
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 did I feel loathing on that generation, and I said, It is a people of an erring heart; and they truly acknowledged not 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 that I swore 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!’”
