as they did at Meribah on the day when they provoked Him in the desert. There (He says) your fathers tempted Me; yea and they saw the proof (of My power) and My works (miracles).
For forty years I bore up with this generation, until I said to myself: This is a people forever astray in their hearts; yet have they ignored My directions. Wherefore in My wrath have I solemnly determined that they shall not enter into My rest.
Metrical Translation of Psalm Ninety-Four
O come, let us the Lord our God
Exultingly adore;
And all, with jubilation, praise
Our Saviour evermore.
Let us make haste our homage due
Before His face to bring;
And let us, glad and jubilant,
Psalms to His glory sing;
Because the Lord is a great God
And King, all gods above; Because the Lord will not reject
The people of His love;
Because He in His mighty hand,
All ends of earth doth hold;
And doth from His high throne above,
All mountain heights behold;
Because the sea to Him belongs
As work of His own hand;
Because He made and 'stablished
The firm and solid land.
Come, let us fall before our God,
And prostrate Him adore;
And before Him Who made us all
Let us our sins deplore.
For He to us Our Lord and God
Is, and will ever be;
His chosen people, of His fold
And pasture sheep are we.
