Psalm 95

Translated from the Hebrew of the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Tap a verse to see why it reads as it does. Tap a small letter to read its footnote.

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Bow to the King; listen today

¹Come, let us sing out with joy to the LORD \q and raise a glad shout to the Rock who saves us. ²Let us go out to meet him with thanks, \q and lift a glad shout to him in our songs. ³For the LORD is a mighty God, \q a mighty King high over all gods, ⁴who holds the deep places of the earth in his hand; \q the tops of the mountains are his as well, ⁵the sea belongs to him because he made it, \q and his hands shaped the dry ground. ⁶Come, let us bow down to the ground and bend low; \q let us kneel in front of the LORD, the one who made us. ⁷For it is he who is our God, \q and we are a people he pastures, a flock he tends with his own hand. \q Oh, that today you would listen to his voice! ⁸“Do not let your hearts grow hard, as happened at Meribah, \q on the day of Massah out in the desert, ⁹when your ancestors put me to the test \q and challenged me, even after they had watched my work. ¹⁰Forty years long I was weary and disgusted with that generation. \q I said, ‘These are people whose hearts wander off; \q they have never learned my ways.’ ¹¹So in my anger I took an oath: \q ‘They will never come into my place of rest.’”