Psalms 95 -- Old Testament -- Gospel Daily

Psalms

Chapter 95

Exhortation to Worship and Warning Against Hardness

The psalmist calls all to make joyful noise unto the Lord and worship before Him with thanksgiving. The Lord is a great God and great King above all gods, sovereign over the earth, sea, and hills. Believers are called to worship and bow down before the Lord their Maker, for they are His people and sheep of His pasture. However, they are warned not to harden their hearts as their fathers did in the wilderness, who tempted the Lord for forty years and were forbidden to enter His rest.

Call to worshipGod's sovereigntyGod's peopleHardened heartsWilderness rebellion

¹O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

²Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

³For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

⁴In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.

⁵The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.

⁶O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

⁷For 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,

⁸Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

⁹When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

¹⁰Forty 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:

¹¹Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.