What does Psalms Chapter 94 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

Joyful praise and weeping before the maker accompany the call to hear. The wilderness account says fathers tempted, proved and saw works. The oath concerns that generation and is not expanded into a universal soul verdict.

Chapter breakdown

Venite exultemus is the incipit. The heading invites adoration, service and hearing God's voice; the inscription is praise of a canticle for David himself. The speakers invite joyful praise of the Lord and savior, thanksgiving before His presence and psalms' joyful noise. He is great God and King above all gods, with earth's ends and mountain heights in His hand, owning sea He made and dry land He formed.

They invite adoration, falling down and weeping before their maker, calling themselves His pasture's people and hand's sheep. Today, if hearing His voice, hearts must not harden as at wilderness provocation and temptation, where fathers tempted, proved and saw His works. The divine speech recalls forty years offended by that generation, always erring in heart and not knowing His ways, and an oath in wrath that these men shall not enter His rest. Meribah and Massah, a temple assembly scene and a universal permanent exclusion of souls are not added.

The story inside

Opening: Joyful praise and weeping before the maker accompany the call to hear. Development: The wilderness account says fathers tempted, proved and saw works. Conclusion: The oath concerns that generation and is not expanded into a universal soul verdict.

Lessons worth keeping

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Joyful praise and weeping before the maker accompany the call to hear.
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The wilderness account says fathers tempted, proved and saw works.
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The oath concerns that generation and is not expanded into a universal soul verdict.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

Lines 63746–63747
94:1. Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour.
Lines 63754–63755
94:4. For in his hand are all the ends of the earth: and the heights of the mountains are his.
Lines 63760–63761
94:6. Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made us.
Lines 63763–63764
94:7. For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.
Lines 63766–63766
94:8. To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts:
Lines 63772–63776
94:10. Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart. 94:11. And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.