King James Version
Psalm 95
Inviting worshippers to sing with joy and enter divine presence with thanksgiving, this hymn celebrates the Creator who holds the deep places of the earth and the mountain heights. The second half shifts to a solemn warning, reminding the community not to harden their hearts as their ancestors did in the wilderness at Meribah. Positioned as a cornerstone enthronement call to praise in Book IV of the Psalter, this chapter combines joyous song with practical spiritual discipline. Joy and obedience belong together in life. A central invitation calls the community to reverence: "O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker."
1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
GO DEEPER
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