Sing to our Papa
Invitation to sing and kneel wey sharply turn to warning. Since our Papa make us and we be im flock, today voice matter: no harden your heart like for Meribah, where one whole generation lose the rest wey dey wait for dem.
95 1Come, make we sing with joy to our Papa; make we shout loud to di Rock of our salvation. 2Make we come before am with thanksgiving; make we shout give am with joy through songs of praise. 3Because our Papa na great King wey pass all di gods. 4Di deep-deep places of di earth dey for im hand, and di high-high heads of di mountains na im own. 5Di sea na im own, because na im make am, and na im hands form di dry land.
6Come, make we worship and bow down; make we kneel down before our Papa, di One wey make us. 7Because na im be our Papa, and we na di people of im pasture, di sheep wey dey under im hand. Today, if you go hear im voice— 8no make your heart hard like wetin you do for Meribah, like for di day for Massah inside di wilderness, a a v8 Meribah and Massah: places for di Sinai wilderness where Israel demand for water and test God (Exodus 17:1–7).
9for where your ancestors test me; dem try me, even though dem don see my work. 10For forty years my belle dey heavy over dat generation, and I talk say, "Dem na people wey dia heart dey waka comot from di way, and dem never know my ways." 11So I swear for my vex, "Dem no go ever enter my rest." b b v11 Di book of Hebrews carry dis warning and show say di rest wey our Papa dey offer, we go fully find am inside Jesus — a rest from struggle, wey person dey enter by faith and never by hard heart.
