¹Come, let's sing for joy to the Lord! Let's shout in triumph to the rock of our salvation!

²Let's go before him with thanksgiving! Let's sing loudly to him in celebration!

³For the Lord is a great God, a great king above all gods.

⁴He rules over the depths of the earth and the heights of the mountains.

⁵The sea is his, because he made it; the dry land, because he formed it.

⁶Come, let's enter in and worship, let's kneel before the Lord our Creator.[#95:6. Speaking of entering into the Temple to worship.]

⁷For he is our God, and we are the people he looks after like a shepherd, the flock he cares for. If you hear his voice calling you today,

⁸don't have a hard-hearted attitude, “as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the desert,[#95:8. “Have a hard-hearted attitude”: literally, “do not harden your hearts.”]

⁹when your forefathers provoked me, testing my patience, even though they had seen everything I'd done.

¹⁰For forty years I was disgusted with that generation, and I said, ‘They are people who are unfaithful to me in their minds, and they refuse to accept my ways.’

¹¹So in my frustration I vowed, ‘They will certainly not enter my rest.’”[#95:11. “My rest,” referring to the Promised Land.]