Psalms 95
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11 verses · 191 words · ~1 min read · ~1 min listen
Do Not Harden Your Hearts
1Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;
let us shout to the Rock of our salvation!
2Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving;
let us make a joyful noise to Him in song.
3For the Lord is a great God,
a great King above all gods.
4In His hand are the depths of the earth,
and the mountain peaks belong to Him.
5The sea is His, for He made it,
and His hands formed the dry land.
6O come, let us worship and bow down;
let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
7For He is our God,
and we are the people of His pasture,
the sheep under His care.
Today, if you hear His voice,
8do not harden your hearts
as you did at Meribah,
in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
9where your fathers tested and tried Me,
though they had seen My work.
10For forty years I was angry with that generation,
and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they have not known My ways.”
11So I swore on oath in My anger,
“They shall never enter My rest.”
Footnotes (4)
- a v8 LXX as you did in the rebellion; Meribah means quarreling; see Exodus 17:7; cited in Hebrews 3:15and Hebrews 4:7.
- b v8 LXX in the day of testing in the wilderness; Massah means testing; see Exodus 17:7.
- c v10 LXX They always go astray in the heart
- d v11 Cited in Hebrews 3:7–11,Hebrews 4:3,and Hebrews 4:5
Study notes on this chapter · 1
Prophecy & fulfillmentLinked by the New Testament
Today, if you hear his voice, enter the rest
Psalm 95 warns the people not to harden their hearts as in the wilderness. Hebrews reads the warning as still open: Joshua did not give Israel the final rest, since David later speaks of 'today', so a Sabbath rest still remains for God's people, rooted in God resting on the seventh day.
When: Wilderness rebellion (c. 1446 BC or later); Psalm 95; Hebrews, before AD 70 (most likely).
Ways people read this (3)
- The rest is final salvation and life with God in the age to come.
- The rest is entered now through faith and fulfilled fully later.
- Some traditions draw from this a continuing Sabbath observance; others see the Sabbath as fulfilled in Christ.
Editorial note by BibleWay. Interpretations vary; dates are approximate scholarly estimates.