Psalm 95/Speech Act/Summary

Speaker		Verses		Speech Act Sections		Addressee
Leader		v. 1 Come, let us shout for joy to YHWH! Let us cry out to the rock of our salvation!		INVITATION (vv. 1–5) “Come, let us approach YHWH with praise.” because he is a great God and great king over all gods.		Congregation
		v. 2 Let us approach his presence with praise; in songs we will cry out to him
		v. 3 because YHWH is a great God and a great king over all gods,
		v. 4 [a God] in whose hand are the unexplored depths of the earth and the peaks of the mountains are his;
		v. 5 to whom belongs the sea —he made it— and the dry land which his hands formed.
		v. 6 Come, let us bow down and kneel! Let us kneel down before YHWH, our maker,		EXHORTATION (vv. 6–7b) “Come, let us bow down before YHWH.” because he is our God and we are his flock.
		v. 7 because he is our God and we are the people he shepherds, the flock led by his hand. Today, if you want to obey his voice...
YHWH		v. 8 Do not harden your heart as [at] Meribah, as [on] the day of Massah in the wilderness,		DECREE (vv. 7c–11) Today, if you want to obey his voice... "Do not be like your rebellious ancestors in the wilderness, who put me to the test, so I swore:” Oath “They will not enter into my rest!”
		v. 9 where your ancestors put me to the test. They tested me. They had even seen my work!
		v. 10 For forty years I was disgusted with a generation and I would think: 'They are a people whose heart strays and they do not recognize my ways.
		v. 11 [They are a people] about whom I swore in my anger, They will not enter into my place of rest!\"'