Psalms 95
1 Come, we sing to YHWH, We shout to the rock of our salvation.
Come, sing to Yahweh; sing joyfully to the one who protects us [MET] and saves us!
2 We come before His face with thanksgiving, We shout to Him with psalms.
We should thank him as we come before him, and sing (joyful songs/joyfully) as we praise him.
3 For YHWH [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 In whose hand [are] the deep places of earth, And the strong places of hills [are] His.
He rules over the whole earth, from the deepest places/caves to the highest mountains.
5 Whose is the sea, and 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 Come in, we bow ourselves, and we bend, We kneel before YHWH 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 the people of His pasture, And the flock of His hand, Today, if you listen 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 Do not harden your heart as [in] Meribah, As [in] the day of 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 have tried Me, Have proved Me, indeed, have 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 Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, “A people erring in heart—they! 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 Where I swore in My anger, “If they come 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!’”
