Psalms

The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.

Author: David and others
Date: c. 1400–400 BC
Theme: Prayers and songs for every season of the life of faith.
Key verses: Psalm 23; Psalm 51; Psalm 119:105
Young's Literal Translation

Psalms 95

1Come, we sing to Jehovah, We shout to the rock of our salvation. 2We come before His face with thanksgiving, With psalms we shout to Him. 3For a great God is Jehovah, And a great king over all gods. 4In whose hand are the deep places of earth, And the strong places of hills are His. 5Whose is the sea, and He made it, And His hands formed the dry land. 6Come in, we bow ourselves, and we bend, We kneel before Jehovah our Maker. 7For He is our God, and we the people of His pasture, And the flock of His hand, To-day, if to His voice ye hearken, 8Harden not your heart as in Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness, 9Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work. 10Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, `A people erring in heart--they! And they have not known My ways:' 11Where I sware in Mine anger, `If they come in unto My rest--!'

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