Psalms 95:5-11

5 The sea is His, for it was He ¹who made it, And His hands formed the dry land.

6 Come, let us ²worship and bow down, Let us ³kneel before the LORD our ⁴Maker.

7 For He is our God, And ⁵we are the people of His ⁶pasture and the sheep of His hand. ⁷Today, if you would hear His voice,

8 Do not harden your hearts, as at ⁸Meribah, As in the day of ⁹Massah in the wilderness,

9 "When your fathers ¹⁰tested Me, They tried Me, though they had seen My work.

10 "For ¹¹forty years I loathed that generation, And said they are a people who err in their heart, And they do not know My ways.

11 "Therefore I ¹²swore in My anger, Truly they shall not enter into My ¹³rest."

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Psalms 95:5-11 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

Cross References 13

1. Genesis 1:9, 10; Psalms 146:6; Jonah 1:9
2. Psalms 96:9; Psalms 99:5, 9
3. 2 Chronicles 6:13; Daniel 6:10; Philippians 2:10
4. Psalms 100:3; Psalms 149:2; Isaiah 17:7; Hosea 8:14
5. Psalms 79:13
6. Psalms 74:1
7. Heb 3:7-11, 15; Hebrews 4:7
8. Exodus 17:2-7; Numbers 20:13
9. Exodus 17:7; Deuteronomy 6:16
10. Numbers 14:22; Psalms 78:18; 1 Corinthians 10:9
11. Acts 7:36; Acts 13:18; Hebrews 3:10, 17
12. Num 14:23, 28-30; Deuteronomy 1:35; Hebrews 4:3, 5
13. Deuteronomy 12:9

Footnotes 5

[a]. Lit "Who has the sea"
[b]. Lit "pasturing"
[c]. Or "O that you would obey"
[d]. Or "place of strife"
[e]. Or "temptation"