Psalms 95:6

6 Come, let us ¹worship and bow down, Let us ²kneel before the LORD our ³Maker.

Psalms 95:6 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 95:6

O come, let us worship and bow down
Before him who is the Rock of our salvation, the great God and great King, the Creator of the ends of the earth, the proper object of all religious worship and adoration: Christ is to be worshipped with every part of external worship under the New Testament dispensation; psalms and songs of praise are to be sung unto him; prayer is to be made unto him; the Gospel is to be preached, and ordinances to be administered, in his name; and likewise with all internal worship, in the exercise of every grace on him, as faith, hope, and love: see ( Psalms 45:11 ) ,

let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;
both in a natural and spiritual sense: Christ is the Maker of us as creatures, of our souls and bodies; we have our natural being from him, and are supported in it by him; and he is the Maker of us as new creatures; we are his workmanship, created in him, and by him; and therefore he should be worshipped by us, ( Ephesians 2:10 ) ( Psalms 100:3 Psalms 100:4 ) . Kimchi distinguishes these several gestures, expressed by the different words here used; the first, we render worship, signifies, according to him, the prostration of the whole body on the ground, with the hands and legs stretched out; the second, a bowing of the head, with part of the body; and the third, a bending of the knees on the ground; but though each of these postures and gestures have been, and may be, used in religious worship, yet they seem not so much to design them themselves, and the particular use of them, as worship itself, which is in general intended by them.

Psalms 95:6 In-Context

4 In whose hand are the depths of the earth, The peaks of the mountains are His also.

5 The sea is His, for it was He who made it, And His hands formed the dry land.

6 Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD 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 would hear His voice,

8 Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 96:9; Psalms 99:5, 9
• 2. 2 Chronicles 6:13; Daniel 6:10; Philippians 2:10
• 3. Psalms 100:3; Psalms 149:2; Isaiah 17:7; Hosea 8:14