Psalm 95 – For a Festival. A Hymn of Praise and a Solemn Warning

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95 Come! Let us ring out our joy to the Lord,

let us merrily shout to our rock of salvation.

2 Before his face let us come with thanks,

with songs of praise let us shout to him.

3 For the Lord is a great God,

king above all gods.

4 In his hand are the depths of the earth,

the heights of the mountains are his.

5 The sea is his, for he made it:

the dry land was formed by his hands.

6 Come! Let us worship and bow

on our knees to the Lord our creator.

7 For he is our God; and we

are the people he tends, the sheep in his care.

If only you would heed his voice today:

8 ‘Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah,

or at Massah, that day in the desert,

9 when your ancestors tempted and tried me,

though they had seen my deeds.

10 ‘For forty years I was filled with loathing

for that generation, so I said:

“A people with wandering hearts are they,

and ignorant of my ways.”

11 So I solemnly swore to them in my anger,

that never would they enter my place of rest.’