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Context: During the Exodus. Reference to early in exodus or after the judgment of 40 years in desert. Ps 95:8 references the events at Massah [Testing] in the desert. (Ex 17:7 (context 17:1-7); Num 11:20-25) (Consider also Ex 6:6-7, Num 11:18-23, 14:11-25, 26:64-65; Deut 1:25-40, 9:27-28; Joshua [Salvation Yah] 4:20-24)
1 Oh come, let’s sing to Adonai.
Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our yesha' ·salvation·!
2 Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving.
Let’s extol him with songs!
3 For Adonai is a great God,
a great King above all deities.
4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth.
The heights of the mountains are also his.
5 The sea is his, and he made it.
His hands formed the dry land.
6 Oh come, let’s worship and hawa ·bow low, prostrate·.
Let’s kneel before Yahweh 'Oseinu [Yahweh our Maker],
7 for he is our God.
We are the people of his pasture,
and the sheep in his care.
*Today, oh that you would sh'ma ·hear obey· his voice!
8 Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah [Quarreling], †
as in the day of Massah [Testing] in the wilderness,
9 when your fathers tempted me,
tested me, and saw my work.
10 Forty long years I loathed that generation, ‡
and said, “This is a people that errors in their heart.
They have not known my ways.”
11 Therefore I swore in my wrath,
“They won’t enter into my rest.” § *
* 95:7 c MPr: If Israel did penitence only one day (or else properly observed even one Sabbath), the Messiah the Son of David would immediately come. Larger context reads God says this to Israel, “My son, open to Me a door of repentance even small as a needle’s eye (small door of city gate), and I will open to you doors wide enough for carriages and wagons and I shall come in.” (Ps 95:7c in Midrash Exodus 25). (Rev 3:19) † 95:8 . (7-8) Quoted in Heb 3:13, 3:15, 4:7, (partially in Heb 3:13, 3:16) ‡ 95:10 . Quoted in Heb 3:17 § 95:11 . (7-11) Quoted in Heb 3:7-11 * 95:11 . Quoted in Heb 3:18, 4:3, 4:5, (partially in Heb 3:19, 4:1, 4:3, 4:6, 4:10-11)