Psalms 95

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

Oh come, let us sing to Yahweh; let us sing joyfully 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 sing to him with psalms of praise.

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

For Yahweh is a great God and a great King superior to 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; the heights of the mountains are his.

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.

Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Yahweh, our Creator:

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 and the sheep of his hand. Today—oh, that you would 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 heart, as at Meribah, or as on the day of 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 forefathers tested me and tried me, though they had seen my deeds.

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 said, 'This is a people whose hearts wander astray; 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!’”

Therefore I vowed in my anger that they would never enter into my resting place.”