Psalms 95:1-7

A Call to Worship and Obey

1 Come, let us sing for joy to Yahweh; let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.

2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; with songs let us shout joyfully to him.

3 For Yahweh [is] [the] great God, and [the] great king over all gods,

4 in whose hand [are the] unexplored places of [the] earth, and [the] heights of [the] mountains [are] his,

5 to whom belongs the sea that he made, and [the] dry land [that] his hands formed.

6 Come in, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Yahweh, our maker.

7 For he [is] our God, and we [are] the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. {Today} if you will hear his voice:

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Psalms 95:1-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 95

This psalm, though without a title, was written by David, as appears from Heb 4:7, and to him the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions ascribe it. It belongs to the times of the Messiah, as Kimchi observes; the apostle applies it to the Jews of his time, and bespeaks them in the language of it, Heb 3:7-11, and in which time Israelites, believers in Christ, are called upon to serve and worship him, in consideration of his greatness in himself, and his goodness to them. Theodoret thinks that David spoke prophetically of King Josiah and his times; and wrote it in the person of him, and the priests of God.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Footnotes 5

[a]. The Hebrew does not have the definite article used twice in the translation of this verse
[b]. Or "the deep places"
[c]. Hebrew "and he made it"
[d]. Literally "The day"
[e]. Or "If only you would hear his voice today"