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Psalms 95
Jehovah, the rock of salvation and maker of heaven and earth, calls His covenant people to worship with thanksgiving and bowing knee — then pivots sharply to warning. The voice that speaks in verse 7 is the same shepherd-king who led Israel through the wilderness; Hebrews 3–4 reads this as Jehovah-Christ speaking to a latter-day audience just as clearly as to the Exodus generation. The twin peril is hardened hearts and unproven trust: forty years of witnessed miracles produced neither knowing of His ways nor entry into His rest. The rest sworn against in wrath is covenant rest — Zion-fullness — forfeited by a generation that saw and still did not know.
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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.
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O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
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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,
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Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
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When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
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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:
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Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
