> [[psalm-94|← Previous]] | [[psalm-00|TOC]] | [[psalm-96|Next →]] --- # Psalm 95 ## A Call to Praise and Obedience ### I 1 Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD; ^psalm-95-1 cry out to the rock of our salvation. 2 Let us come before him with a song of praise, ^psalm-95-2 joyfully sing out our psalms. 3 For the LORD is the great God, ^psalm-95-3 the great king over all gods, 4 Whose hand holds the depths of the earth; ^psalm-95-4 who owns the tops of the mountains. 5 The sea and dry land belong to God, ^psalm-95-5 who made them, formed them by hand. ### II 6 Enter, let us bow down in worship; ^psalm-95-6 let us kneel before the LORD who made us. 7 For he is our God, ^psalm-95-7 we are the people he shepherds, the sheep in his hands. ### III Oh, that today you would hear his voice: 8 Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, ^psalm-95-8 as on the day of Massah in the desert. 9 There your ancestors tested me; ^psalm-95-9 they tried me though they had seen my works. 10 Forty years I loathed that generation; ^psalm-95-10 I said: “This people’s heart goes astray; they do not know my ways.” 11 Therefore I swore in my anger: ^psalm-95-11 “They shall never enter my rest.” \* (Psalm 95) Twice the Psalm calls the people to praise and worship God ([Ps 95:1] – [2], [6]), the king of all creatures ([Ps 95:3] – [5]) and shepherd of the flock ([Ps 95:7a], [7b]). The last strophe warns the people to be more faithful than were their ancestors in the journey to the promised land ([Ps 95:7c] – [11]). This invitation to praise God regularly opens the Church’s official prayer, the Liturgy of the Hours. \* (95:8) Meribah: lit., “contention”; the place where the Israelites quarreled with God. Massah: “testing,” the place where they put God to the trial, cf. ([[exodus-17|Ex 17]]:7]; [Nm 20:13]. \* (95:11) My rest: the promised land as in [Dt 12:9]. [Heb 4] applies the verse to the eternal rest of heaven. a. (95:1) [Dt 32:15]. b. (95:3) [Ps 47:2]; [135:5]. c. (95:5) ([[psalm-24|Ps 24]]:1] – [2]. d. (95:7] – [11) [Ps 81:8]; [106:32]; [Heb 3:7] – [11], [15]; [4:3], [5], [7]. e. (95:7) ([[psalm-23|Ps 23]]:1] – [3]; [100:3]; [Mi 7:14]. f. (95:9) [Nm 14:22]; [20:2] – [13]; [Dt 6:16]; [33:8]. g. (95:10) [Ps 78:8]; [Nm 14:34]; [Dt 32:5]. --- _New American Bible, revised edition_ (2010, 1991, 1986, 1970) Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. > [[psalm-94|← Previous]] | [[psalm-00|TOC]] | [[psalm-96|Next →]]