5th Day Evening - Psalm 95

Psalm 95   Venite, exultemus

 

1            Come, let us sing to the Lord; *

        let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.

 

2            Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving *

        and raise a loud shout to him with psalms.

 

3            For the Lord is a great God, *

        and a great King above all gods.

 

4            In his hand are the caverns of the earth, *

        and the heights of the hills are his also.

 

5            The sea is his, for he made it, *

        and his hands have molded the dry land.

6            Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee, *

        and kneel before the Lord our Maker.

 

7            For he is our God,

and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. *

        Oh, that today you would hearken to his voice!

 

8            Harden not your hearts,

as your forebears did in the wilderness, *

        at Meribah, and on that day at Massah,

        when they tempted me.

 

9            They put me to the test, *

        though they had seen my works.

 

10            Forty years long I detested that generation and said, *

        “This people are wayward in their hearts;

        they do not know my ways.”

 

11            So I swore in my wrath, *

        “They shall not enter into my rest.”