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Psalm 95

Psalm 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.

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Verse 4

<html><b>and the heights</b> An expression of height, like a bird that flies [up high].</html>

Verse 6

<html><b>let us kneel</b> Heb. נברכה, an expression of (Gen. 24:11): “He made the camels kneel (ויברך).”</html>

Verse 7

<html><b>today</b> In this world.</html>

Verse 9

<html><b>tested Me</b> for nothing. <b>even though they had seen My work</b> in Egypt.</html>

Verse 10

<html><b>Forty years</b> I quarreled with them and contended with them. [אקוט is] an expression of (Job 10: 1): “My soul quarrels (נקטה) with my life.” I strove with them for forty years to kill them in the desert, because I said, “They are of erring heart.”</html>

Verse 11

<html><b>My resting place</b> [In]to the land of Israel and Jerusalem, which I called “resting place,” as it says (below 132:14): “This is my resting place forever.”</html>