Playing with the Text

O come, let us sing for joy to the Lord, let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.Psalm 95:1  NASB Shout joyfully– Put on a happy face.  That seems to be the intention here, so the translators offer a positive rendering of the verb by adding “joyfully.” The actual Hebrew is simply the verb rūaʿ, which can mean…