Psalm 95 — Hear His voice today — Hebrew and Greek compared
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Psalm 95 — Hear His voice today
Verse 95:1 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[95:1] Come, let us sing joyfully to YHWH;
let us shout to the Rock of our salvation.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[94:1] A praise of a song, of David.
Come, let us exult in the Lord;
let us shout to God our Savior.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek adds the Davidic heading and has God our Savior where Hebrew has Rock of our salvation.
Verse 95:2 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[95:2] Let us come before His face with thanksgiving;
with songs let us shout to Him.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[94:2] Let us come before His face with thanksgiving,
and with psalms let us shout to Him.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The summons to thankful song agrees; songs and psalms preserve the source terms.
Verse 95:3 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[95:3] For YHWH is a great God,
a great King above all gods.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[94:3] For the Lord is a great God
and a great King above all gods.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both assert divine supremacy. Gods is not replaced by angels or idols without source warrant in this line.
Verse 95:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[95:4] In His hand are the earth’s depths;
the mountain heights are His.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[94:4] For in His hand are the earth’s ends,
and the mountain heights are His.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew depths or explored recesses becomes Greek ends; the spatial contrast is preserved rather than made identical.
Verse 95:5 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[95:5] The sea is His, and He made it;
His hands formed the dry land.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[94:5] For the sea is His, and He made it,
and His hands formed the dry land.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Ownership and formation of sea and land agree; Greek explicitly continues with for and and.
Verse 95:6 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[95:6] Come, let us bow down and bend low;
let us kneel before YHWH our Maker.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[94:6] Come, let us bow down and fall before Him,
and let us weep before the Lord who made us.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew kneeling becomes Greek weeping, while the preceding worship gestures remain related.
Verse 95:7 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[95:7] For He is our God,
and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.
Today, if you hear His voice,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[94:7] For He is our God,
and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.
Today, if you hear His voice,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both preserve the pastoral description and today clause, which leads to the following prohibition. The line is not isolated into an unconditional assurance of obedience.
Verse 95:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[95:8] do not harden your hearts as at Meribah,
as on the day of Massah in the wilderness,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[94:8] do not harden your hearts as in the provocation,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew names Meribah and Massah; Greek renders the episode through provocation and testing. Their thematic meanings are not substituted for the Hebrew place names in the base.
Verse 95:9 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[95:9] where your ancestors tested Me,
put Me to the proof, though they had seen My work.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[94:9] where your ancestors tested,
put to the proof, and saw My works.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Hebrew twice explicitly marks Me as the testing object; Greek leaves the object unstated. Hebrew though or also and singular work become Greek and and plural works. The objects are not silently reinserted into Greek.
Verse 95:10 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[95:10] For forty years I loathed a generation
and said, They are a people straying in heart,
and they have not known My ways.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[94:10] For forty years I was vexed with that generation
and said, They always stray in heart,
and they did not know My ways,
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek adds that and always while omitting Hebrew a people. The stronger Hebrew aversion and Greek vexation retain source nuance; neither account is turned into a judgment about all later generations.
Verse 95:11 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[95:11] so I swore in My anger,
They shall not enter My rest.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[94:11] as I swore in My anger,
They shall not enter My rest.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both use an elliptical if-clause within an oath to express emphatic exclusion. The English renders that negative oath force rather than falsely presenting entry as an open possibility.