赞美上帝之歌

95 来吧,让我们向耶和华歌唱,
向拯救我们的磐石欢呼。
让我们怀着感恩的心来到祂面前,
向祂高唱赞美诗。
因为耶和华是伟大的上帝,
是众神明之上的大君王。
祂掌管地的深处,
祂拥有山的高峰。
海洋属于祂,是祂创造的,
陆地也是祂造的。
来吧,让我们俯伏敬拜,
在创造我们的耶和华面前跪下。
因为祂是我们的上帝,
我们是祂照管的子民,
是祂牧放的羊群。

你们今日若听见祂的声音,
不可像你们祖先在米利巴,
在旷野的玛撒那样心里顽固。
耶和华说:“虽然他们见过我的作为,
却仍然试探我。
10 所以,我憎恶他们四十年之久,
我说,‘他们偏离正路,不遵行我的命令。’
11 因此我在怒中起誓说,
‘他们绝不可进入我的安息!’”

讚美上帝之歌

95 來吧,讓我們向耶和華歌唱,
向拯救我們的磐石歡呼。
讓我們懷著感恩的心來到祂面前,
向祂高唱讚美詩。
因為耶和華是偉大的上帝,
是眾神明之上的大君王。
祂掌管地的深處,
祂擁有山的高峰。
海洋屬於祂,是祂創造的,
陸地也是祂造的。
來吧,讓我們俯伏敬拜,
在創造我們的耶和華面前跪下。
因為祂是我們的上帝,
我們是祂照管的子民,
是祂牧放的羊群。

你們今日若聽見祂的聲音,
不可像你們祖先在米利巴,
在曠野的瑪撒那樣心裡頑固。
耶和華說:「雖然他們見過我的作為,
卻仍然試探我。
10 所以,我憎惡他們四十年之久,
我說,『他們偏離正路,不遵行我的命令。』
11 因此我在怒中起誓說,
『他們絕不可進入我的安息!』」

Psalm 95[a]

95 Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord.
Let us shout out praises to our Protector who delivers us.[b]
Let us enter his presence[c] with thanksgiving.
Let us shout out to him in celebration.[d]
For the Lord is a great God,
a great king who is superior to[e] all gods.
The depths of the earth are in his hand,[f]
and the mountain peaks belong to him.
The sea is his, for he made it.
His hands formed the dry land.
Come, let us bow down and worship.[g]
Let us kneel before the Lord, our Creator.
For he is our God;
we are the people of his pasture,
the sheep he owns.[h]
Today, if only you would obey him.[i]
He says,[j] “Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah,[k]
like they were that day at Massah[l] in the wilderness,[m]
where your ancestors challenged my authority,[n]
and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.
10 For forty years I was continually disgusted[o] with that generation,
and I said, ‘These people desire to go astray;[p]
they do not obey my commands.’[q]
11 So I made a vow in my anger,
‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”[r]

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 95:1 sn Psalm 95. The psalmist summons Israel to praise God as the creator of the world and the nation’s protector, but he also reminds the people not to rebel against God.
  2. Psalm 95:1 tn Heb “to the rocky summit of our deliverance.”
  3. Psalm 95:2 tn Heb “meet his face.”
  4. Psalm 95:2 tn Heb “with songs of joy.”
  5. Psalm 95:3 tn Heb “above.”
  6. Psalm 95:4 tn The phrase “in his hand” means within the sphere of his authority.
  7. Psalm 95:6 tn Heb “kneel down.”
  8. Psalm 95:7 tn Heb “of his hand.”
  9. Psalm 95:7 tn Heb “if only you would listen to his voice.” The Hebrew particle אִם (ʾim, “if”) and following prefixed verbal form here express a wish (cf. Ps 81:8). Note that the apodosis (the “then” clause of the conditional sentence) is suppressed.
  10. Psalm 95:8 tn The words “he says” are supplied in the translation to clarify that the following words are spoken by the Lord (see vv. 9-11).
  11. Psalm 95:8 sn The name Meribah means “strife.” Two separate but similar incidents at Meribah are recorded in the Pentateuch (Exod 17:1-7; Num 20:1-13, see also Pss 81:7; 106:32). In both cases the Israelites complained about lack of water and the Lord miraculously provided for them.
  12. Psalm 95:8 sn The name Massah means “testing.” This was another name (along with Meribah) given to the place where Israel complained following the Red Sea Crossing (see Exod 17:1-7, as well as Deut 6:16; 9:22; 33:8).
  13. Psalm 95:8 tn Heb “do not harden your heart[s] as [at] Meribah, as [in] the day of Massah in the wilderness.”
  14. Psalm 95:9 tn Heb “where your fathers tested me.”
  15. Psalm 95:10 tn The prefixed verbal form is either a preterite or an imperfect. If the latter, it emphasizes the ongoing nature of the condition in the past. The translation reflects this interpretation of the verbal form.
  16. Psalm 95:10 tn Heb “a people, wanderers of heart [are] they.”
  17. Psalm 95:10 tn Heb “and they do not know my ways.” In this context the Lord’s “ways” are his commands, viewed as a pathway from which his people, likened to wayward sheep (see v. 7), wander.
  18. Psalm 95:11 tn Heb “my resting place.” The promised land of Canaan is here viewed metaphorically as a place of rest for God’s people, who are compared to sheep (see v. 7).

Psalm 95

Come,(A) let us sing for joy(B) to the Lord;
    let us shout aloud(C) to the Rock(D) of our salvation.
Let us come before him(E) with thanksgiving(F)
    and extol him with music(G) and song.

For the Lord is the great God,(H)
    the great King(I) above all gods.(J)
In his hand are the depths of the earth,(K)
    and the mountain peaks belong to him.
The sea is his, for he made it,
    and his hands formed the dry land.(L)

Come, let us bow down(M) in worship,(N)
    let us kneel(O) before the Lord our Maker;(P)
for he is our God
    and we are the people of his pasture,(Q)
    the flock under his care.

Today, if only you would hear his voice,
“Do not harden your hearts(R) as you did at Meribah,[a](S)
    as you did that day at Massah[b] in the wilderness,(T)
where your ancestors tested(U) me;
    they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
10 For forty years(V) I was angry with that generation;
    I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,(W)
    and they have not known my ways.’(X)
11 So I declared on oath(Y) in my anger,
    ‘They shall never enter my rest.’”(Z)

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 95:8 Meribah means quarreling.
  2. Psalm 95:8 Massah means testing.