Psalm 95

Come, sing to God; sing joyfully to the one who protects us and saves us!

We should thank him as we come before him and sing joyful songs as we praise him.

Because God is a great God, he is a great king who rules over all other gods.

He rules over the whole earth from the deepest places to the highest mountains.

The seas are his because he made them. He is the one who made the dry land.

We should come, worship, and bow down before him. We should kneel before God, the one who made us.

He is our God, and we are the people whom he protects, like sheep that a shepherd takes care of. I desire that today you may hear what God is saying to you.

He says, "Do not become stubborn as your ancestors did at Meribah, and as they did at Massah in the wilderness.

There your ancestors wanted to see if they could do evil things without my punishing them. Even though they had seen me perform many miracles, they tested whether I would continue to be patient with them.

For forty years I was angry with those people, and I said, 'Those people are unreliable. They refuse to obey my commands.'

So because I was very angry, I solemnly said about them: 'They will never enter the land of Canaan where I would have allowed them to rest!'"