Psalm 95
Do Not Harden Your Hearts
(Hebrews 3:7–11)
¹ Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout to the Rock of our salvation!
² Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him in song.
³ For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.
⁴ In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him.
⁵ The sea is His, for 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, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
⁸ do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,1 in the day at Massah in the wilderness,2
⁹ where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
¹⁰ For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray,3 and they have not known My ways.”
¹¹ So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”4
95:8 LXX as you did in the rebellion; Meribah means quarreling; see Exodus 17:7; cited in Hebrews 3:15 and Hebrews 4:7. ↩︎
95:8 LXX in the day of testing in the wilderness; Massah means testing; see Exodus 17:7. ↩︎
95:10 LXX They always go astray in the heart ↩︎
95:11 Cited in Hebrews 3:7–11, Hebrews 4:3, and Hebrews 4:5 ↩︎