Psalms 95

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

Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us 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.

Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him in song.

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

For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.

4 He rules over the whole earth, from the deepest places/caves to the highest mountains.

In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him.

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

The sea is His, for 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.

O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD 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 are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear 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 hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at 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 tested and tried Me, though they had 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.’

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.”

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!’”

So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”