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Psalms 95
Berean Standard Bible
Section headings and translator notes come from the publisher; they are reading aids, distinct from the Bible text.
Do Not Harden Your Hearts
Verse1Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout to the Rock of our salvation!
Verse2Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him in song.
Verse3For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.
Verse4In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him.
Verse5The sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land.
Verse6O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
Verse7For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
Verse8do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
Verse9where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
Verse10For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
Verse11So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
Translator notes (4)
- Verse 8: LXX as you did in the rebellion; Meribah means quarreling; see Exodus 17:7; cited in Hebrews 3:15 and Hebrews 4:7.
- Verse 8: LXX in the day of testing in the wilderness; Massah means testing; see Exodus 17:7.
- Verse 10: LXX They always go astray in the heart
- Verse 11: Cited in Hebrews 3:7–11, Hebrews 4:3, and Hebrews 4:5