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Psalms 95

1 Come, let's shout joyfully to the LORD, shout triumphantly to the rock of our salvation!
2 Let's enter his presence with thanksgiving; let's shout triumphantly to him in song.
3 For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.
4 The depths of the earth are in his hand, and the mountain peaks are his.
5 The sea is his; he made it. His hands formed the dry land.
6 Come, let's worship and bow down; let's kneel before the LORD our Maker.
7 For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, the sheep under his care. Today, if you hear his voice:
8 Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as on that day at Massah in the wilderness
9 where your ancestors tested me; they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
10 For forty years I was disgusted with that generation; I said, "They are a people whose hearts go astray; they do not know my ways."
11 So I swore in my anger, "They will not enter my rest."

Chapter Summary

A call to worship the great King with joy, and a warning not to harden hearts as Israel did at Meribah.

Book Summary

Psalms is the Bible's songbook: one hundred fifty prayers and hymns of praise, lament, thanksgiving, and trust, many attributed to David. From the depths of despair to the heights of worship, it has voiced the prayers of God's people for millennia.