1 Oh come, let's sing to Yahweh. Let's shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!
2 Let's come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let's extol him with songs!
3 For Yahweh is a great God, A great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his.
5 The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.
6 Oh come, let's worship and bow down. Let's kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,
7 For he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, And the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
8 Don't harden your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
9 When your fathers tempted me, Tested me, and saw my work.
10 Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, And said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."
11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They won't enter into my rest."
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Commentary on Psalms 95 Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
PSALM 95
Ps 95:1-11. David (Heb 4:7) exhorts men to praise God for His greatness, and warns them, in God's words, against neglecting His service.
1. The terms used to express the highest kind of joy.
rock—a firm basis, giving certainty of salvation (Ps 62:7).
2. come … presence—literally, "approach," or, meet Him (Ps 17:13).
3. above … gods—esteemed such by men, though really nothing (Jer 5:7; 10:10-15).
4, 5. The terms used describe the world in its whole extent, subject to God.
6. come—or, "enter," with solemn forms, as well as hearts.
7. This relation illustrates our entire dependence (compare Ps 23:3; 74:1). The last clause is united by Paul (Heb 3:7) to the following (compare Ps 81:8),
8-11. warning against neglect; and this is sustained by citing the melancholy fate of their rebellious ancestors, whose provoking insolence is described by quoting the language of God's complaint (Nu 14:11) of their conduct at Meribah and Massah, names given (Ex 17:7) to commemorate their strife and contention with Him (Ps 78:18, 41).
10. err in their heart—Their wanderings in the desert were but types of their innate ignorance and perverseness.
that they should not—literally, "if they," &c., part of the form of swearing (compare Nu 14:30; Ps 89:35).