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Psalm 95
- Purpose
- To offer praise and prayer to God, to supply God’s people with texts for worship, and to provide reflection on the sovereignty of God and some of life’s toughest questions
- Author
- Various; nearly half are linked with David
- Date
- Written over the course of many centuries; the process of collecting and editing was likely completed after the Babylonian exile
- Setting
- Varied, but a postexilic setting accounts for much of the editorial activity and grouping of the psalms
Psalms has 36,194 words: about 2 hours 32 minutes to read, or 4 hours 18 minutes to listen to. Read it from the start or listen from the start.
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Footnotes
Do Not Harden Your Hearts
1Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD;let us shout to the Rock of our salvation! 2Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving;let us make a joyful noise to Him in song.
3For the LORD is a great God,a great King above all gods. 4In His hand are the depths of the earth,and the mountain peaks belong to Him. 5The sea is His, for 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,the sheep under His care.Today, if you hear His voice, 8do not harden your heartsas you did at Meribah,footnote ain the day at Massah in the wilderness,footnote b 9where your fathers tested and tried Me,though they had seen My work. 10For forty years I was angry with that generation,and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray,footnote cand they have not known My ways.” 11So I swore on oath in My anger,“They shall never enter My rest.”footnote d
Footnotes
- a 95:8 LXX as you did in the rebellion; Meribah means quarreling; see Exodus 17:7; cited in Hebrews 3:15 and Hebrews 4:7.
- b 95:8 LXX in the day of testing in the wilderness; Massah means testing; see Exodus 17:7.
- c 95:10 LXX They always go astray in the heart
- d 95:11 Cited in Hebrews 3:7–11, Hebrews 4:3, and Hebrews 4:5
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