Psalm 95 - New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)

Psalm 95[a]

A Call to Praise and Obedience

I

1 Come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord;
cry out to the rock of our salvation.(A)
2 Let us come before him with a song of praise,
joyfully sing out our psalms.
3 For the Lord is the great God,
the great king over all gods,(B)
4 Whose hand holds the depths of the earth;
who owns the tops of the mountains.
5 The sea and dry land belong to God,
who made them, formed them by hand.(C)

II

6 Enter, let us bow down in worship;
let us kneel before the Lord who made us.
7 For he is our God,
we are the people he shepherds,
the sheep in his hands.(D)

III

Oh, that today you would hear his voice:(E)
8 Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah,
as on the day of Massah in the desert.[b]
9 There your ancestors tested me;
they tried me though they had seen my works.(F)
10 Forty years I loathed that generation;
I said: “This people’s heart goes astray;
they do not know my ways.”(G)
11 Therefore I swore in my anger:
“They shall never enter my rest.”[c]

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 95 Twice the Psalm calls the people to praise and worship God (Ps 95:1–2, 6), the king of all creatures (Ps 95:3–5) and shepherd of the flock (Ps 95:7a, 7b). The last strophe warns the people to be more faithful than were their ancestors in the journey to the promised land (Ps 95:7c–11). This invitation to praise God regularly opens the Church’s official prayer, the Liturgy of the Hours.
  2. 95:8 Meribah: lit., “contention”; the place where the Israelites quarreled with God. Massah: “testing,” the place where they put God to the trial, cf. Ex 17:7; Nm 20:13.
  3. 95:11 My rest: the promised land as in Dt 12:9. Hb 4 applies the verse to the eternal rest of heaven.

Cross references

  1. 95:1 : Dt 32:15.
  2. 95:3 : Ps 47:2; 135:5.
  3. 95:5 : Ps 24:1–2.
  4. 95:7–11 : Ps 81:8; 106:32; Hb 3:7–11, 15; 4:3, 5, 7.
  5. 95:7 : Ps 23:1–3; 100:3; Mi 7:14.
  6. 95:9 : Nm 14:22; 20:2–13; Dt 6:16; 33:8.
  7. 95:10 : Ps 78:8; Nm 14:34; Dt 32:5.

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