Psalm 95

A Call to Praise and Obedience

95Come, let’s sing for joy to the Lord.

Let’s shout praises to the Rock who saves us.

²Let’s come to him with thanksgiving.

Let’s sing songs to him,

³because the Lord is the great God,

the great King over all gods.

⁴The deepest places on earth are his,

and the highest mountains belong to him.

⁵The sea is his because he made it,

and he created the land with his own hands.

⁶Come, let’s worship him and bow down.

Let’s kneel before the Lord who made us,

⁷because he is our God

and we are the people he takes care of,

the sheep that he tends.

Today listen to what he says:

⁸“Do not be stubborn, as your ancestors were at Meribah,

as they were that day at Massah in the desert.

⁹There your ancestors tested me

and tried me even though they saw what I did.

¹⁰I was angry with those people for forty years.

I said, ‘They are not loyal to me

and have not understood my ways.’

¹¹I was angry and made a promise,

‘They will never enter my rest.’ ”