Through My Bible Yr 02 – August 07

Psalm 95 – 96

Through My Bible – August 07

Psalm 95 – 96 (EHV)

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Psalm 95

Worship and Warning

Worship

Come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord.
Let us give a loud shout to the Rock who saves us.
Let us approach his presence with thanksgiving.
With music we will shout to him.
For the Lord is the great God
and the great King above all gods.
He holds the unexplored places of the earth in his hand,
and the peaks of the mountains belong to him.
The sea belongs to him, for he made it,
and his hands formed the dry land.

Come, let us bow down. Let us revere him.
Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker,
for he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture
and the flock in his hand.

Warning

Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as they did at Meribah,
as they did that day at Massah in the wilderness,
where your fathers challenged me
and tested me though they had seen what I had done.
10 For forty years I was disgusted with that generation,
and I said, “They are a people who have hearts that stray.
They do not acknowledge my ways.”
11 So I swore in my anger,
“They shall never enter my resting place.”

Psalm 96

Sing to the Lord a New Song

Call to Worship

Sing to the Lord a new song.
Sing to the Lord, all the earth.
Sing to the Lord. Praise his name.
Proclaim the good news of his salvation from day to day.
Tell about his glory among the nations,
about his marvelous deeds among all peoples.

Praise Him Alone

For great is the Lord and worthy of great praise.
He is to be feared above all gods.
For all the gods of the peoples are “nothings,” [1]
but the Lord made the heavens.
Splendor and majesty are before him.
Power and beauty are in his sanctuary.
Ascribe to the Lord, families of peoples,
Ascribe to the Lord glory and power.
Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name.
Bring a gift and come into his courtyards.
Bow down to the Lord in the splendor of his holiness. [2]
Look away from his face, [3] all the earth.

10 Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns.”
The world is firmly established.
It will not be moved.
He will judge the peoples with fairness.

Let Nature Praise Him

11 Let the heavens rejoice.
Let the earth celebrate.
Let the sea roar,
and all that fills it.
12 Let the fields be overjoyed,
and everything that is in them.
Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy
13     before the Lord, for he comes,
    for he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness
and the peoples in his faithfulness.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 96:5 Or non-gods or mini-gods. The Hebrew word is a diminutive of either the word god or the word not.
  2. Psalm 96:9 Or in holy garments
  3. Psalm 96:9 Or tremble in his presence

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