Psalm 95–96

A Call to Worship and Obey

95Come, let us sing for joy to Yahweh;

let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.

²Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving;

with songs let us shout joyfully to him.

³For Yahweh is the^a great God,

and the great king over all gods,

⁴in whose hand are the unexplored places^b of the earth,

and the heights of the mountains are his,

⁵to whom belongs the sea that he made, ^c

and the dry land that his hands formed.

⁶Come in, let us worship and bow down;

let us kneel before Yahweh, our maker.

⁷For he is our God,

and we are the people of his pasture

and the sheep of his hand.

Today^d if you will hear his voice:^e

⁸“Do not harden your heart as at Meribah,

as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

⁹when your ancestors^f tried me.

They put me to the test,

even though they had seen my work.

¹⁰For forty years I loathed that generation,

and said, ‘They are a people whose heart wanders.

And my ways they do not know.’

¹¹Therefore I swore in my anger,

‘They shall surely not enter into my rest.’ ”

Yahweh the King Comes in Judgment

96Sing to^a Yahweh a new song;

sing to^b Yahweh, all the earth.

²Sing to^c Yahweh; bless his name.

Announce^d his salvation from day to day.

³Tell his glory among the nations,

his marvelous works among all the peoples.

⁴For Yahweh is great and very worthy of praise;

he is to be feared above all gods.

⁵For all the gods of the peoples are idols,^e

but Yahweh made the heavens.

⁶Splendor and majesty are before him;

strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

⁷Ascribe to Yahweh, you families of the peoples,

ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.

⁸Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due his name;

bring an offering and come into his courts.

⁹Worship Yahweh in holy array;

tremble before him, all the earth.

¹⁰Say among the nations, “Yahweh is king!

Yes, the world is established so that it will not be moved.

He will judge the peoples fairly.”

¹¹Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice.

Let the sea with^f its fullness roar.

¹²Let the field with^g all that is in it exult.

Then all the trees of the forests will sing for joy

¹³before Yahweh, for he is coming;

for he is coming to judge the earth.

He will judge the world with righteousness,

and the peoples with his faithfulness.