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Psalms 95
1.O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
2.Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
3.For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4.In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
5.The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
6.O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
7.For 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,
8.Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9.When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
10.Forty 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:
11.Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
Asked of Guide
Why does the psalm warn “Harden not your heart” by recalling the wilderness generation?
The psalm names Israel’s wilderness failure to make the warning vivid: their hard hearts led to grief and exclusion from God’s rest. Verses 9–11 say God “was grieved” for forty years and swore they “should not enter into my rest,” tying present worship to remembered disobedience so worshipers take hearing God seriously.
This chapter insists worship—singing, thanksgiving, kneeling—is inseparable from obedience: praise must be accompanied by attentive hearts. Psalm 95 echoes themes in Hebrews 3–4, where the wilderness story is re-used to urge believers to enter God’s rest by trusting and obeying.
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