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Psalm 95 JPS Tanakh (1917)

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  • Jewish
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)
  • Formal (word for word)
  • 1917
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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings

Notes on this text (2)
JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD; let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.
1 Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!
2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, let us shout for joy unto Him with psalms.
2 Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!
3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods;
3 For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods.
4 In whose hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are His also.
4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his.
5 The sea is His, and He made it; and His hands formed the dry land.
5 The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.
6 O come, let us bow down and bend the knee; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;
6 Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,
7 For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the flock of His hand. To-day, if ye would but hearken to His voice!
7 for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
8 'Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness;
8 Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
9 When your fathers tried Me, proved Me, even though they saw My work.
9 when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
10 For forty years was I wearied with that generation, and said: It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known My ways;
10 Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “They are a people who err in their heart. They have not known my ways.”
11 Wherefore I swore in My wrath, that they should not enter into My rest.'
11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”
Cross references (11)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 1 Corinthians 10:4; Psalm 81:1; Psalm 150:6; 2 Samuel 22:47; Psalm 96:1–2
  2. 2 Ephesians 5:19; Psalm 100:4; Jeremiah 31:12–13; Psalm 105:2; Micah 6:6
  3. 3 Psalm 96:4; Jeremiah 10:6–7; Psalm 145:3; Psalm 97:9; Psalm 135:5
  4. 4 Psalm 135:6; Habakkuk 3:6; Habakkuk 3:10; Nahum 1:5; Job 9:5
  5. 5 Genesis 1:9–10; Proverbs 8:29; Psalm 146:6; Psalm 33:7; Jeremiah 5:22
  6. 6 Philippians 2:10; Psalm 100:3; Ephesians 3:14; Psalm 95:1; 1 Corinthians 6:20
  7. 7 Hebrews 4:7; Hebrews 3:15; Revelation 3:20; Hebrews 3:7–11; John 10:14–16
  8. 8 Exodus 17:7; Hebrews 3:8–9; Numbers 20:13; Numbers 14:11; Numbers 14:22
  9. 9 Numbers 14:22; 1 Corinthians 10:9; Psalm 78:56; Psalm 78:40–41; Psalm 78:17–18
  10. 10 Hebrews 3:17; Hebrews 3:9–10; Proverbs 1:22–29; Isaiah 63:17; Acts 13:18
  11. 11 Hebrews 4:3; Numbers 14:23; Hebrews 4:5; Hebrews 3:11; Hebrews 3:18

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm XCIV)

    As we listened with much attention, while the Psalm was in reading, so let us listen attentively, while the Lord revealeth the mysteries which He hath deigned to obscure in this passage. For some mysteries in the Scriptures are shut up for this reason, not that they may be denied, but that they may be opened unto those who knock.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 95:5 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book XIII, Chapters XVI–XIX)

    For the sea also is Thine, and Thou hast made it, and Thy hands prepared the dry land. For neither is the bitterness of men's wills, but the gathering together of waters called sea; for Thou even curbest the wicked desires of men's souls, and fixest their bounds, how far they may be permitted to advance, and that their waves …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  3. Quotes verse 95:7 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily LXXXVI)

    Doth he turn away, and not return?" and, "I do not will the death of the sinner, so much as that he should turn and live:" and, "To-day if ye will hear His voice:" and many other such things, both sayings and examples are set in the Scripture.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

  4. Quotes verse 95:4 Basil of Caesarea, Hexaemeron (Homily I)

    Let us then reply to ourselves, and let us reply to those who ask us upon what support this enormous mass rests, "In His hands are the ends of the earth." It is a doctrine as infallible for our own information as profitable for our hearers.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)

  5. Quotes verse 95:3 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book IX, Chapter 23)

    … gods, this need not give rise to any serious discussion between us, since in our own Scriptures we read, "The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken;" and again, "Confess to the God of gods;" and again, "He is a great King above all gods." And where it is said, "He is to be feared above all gods," the reason …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)