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Psalm 95 [Douay 94]
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Psalm 95 in modern numbering
1 Oh come, let’s sing to the LORD. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!
2 Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!
3 For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.
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 bow down. Let’s kneel before the LORD, 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 hear his voice!
8 Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
9 when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
10 Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “They are a people who err in their heart. They have not known my ways.”
11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”
1 Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour.
2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.
3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4 For in his hand are all the ends of the earth: and the heights of the mountains are his.
5 For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
6 Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made us.
7 For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.
8 To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts:
9 As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works.
10 Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart.
11 And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.
This chapter in the Catechism and the early Church
Where the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites these verses (from its footnotes on vatican.va), and where the earliest Church Fathers quote them (Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, public domain). Short quotes only; follow the links for the full text. The Catechism uses modern verse numbers and psalm numbers (one higher than Douay-Rheims for most psalms), so these are listed by chapter.
- Psalm 95:1 in modern BiblesCCC 2628
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- CCC 2628 “Adoration is the first attitude of man acknowledging that he is a creature before his Creator. It exalts the greatness of the…”
- Psalm 95:2 in modern BiblesCCC 2628
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- CCC 2628 “Adoration is the first attitude of man acknowledging that he is a creature before his Creator. It exalts the greatness of the…”
- Psalm 95:3 in modern BiblesCCC 2628
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- CCC 2628 “Adoration is the first attitude of man acknowledging that he is a creature before his Creator. It exalts the greatness of the…”
- Psalm 95:4 in modern BiblesCCC 2628
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- CCC 2628 “Adoration is the first attitude of man acknowledging that he is a creature before his Creator. It exalts the greatness of the…”
“Come ye, let us worship and fall down before Him, and weep in the presence of the Lord who made us; for He is the Lord our God.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter X. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
- Psalm 95:5 in modern BiblesCCC 2628
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- CCC 2628 “Adoration is the first attitude of man acknowledging that he is a creature before his Creator. It exalts the greatness of the…”
- Psalm 95:6 in modern BiblesCCC 2628
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- CCC 2628 “Adoration is the first attitude of man acknowledging that he is a creature before his Creator. It exalts the greatness of the…”
- Psalm 95:8 in modern BiblesCCC 2659
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- CCC 2659 “We learn to pray at certain moments by hearing the Word of the Lord and sharing in his Paschal mystery, but his…”
- Psalm 95:9 in modern BiblesCCC 2119
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- CCC 2119 “Tempting God consists in putting his goodness and almighty power to the test by word or deed. Thus Satan tried to induce…”
- Psalm 95:10 in modern BiblesCCC 539
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- CCC 539 “The evangelists indicate the salvific meaning of this mysterious event: Jesus is the new Adam who remained faithful just where the first…”