Psalms 95:1-10

1 Come, let's sing to ADONAI! Let's shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation!

2 Let's come into his presence with thanksgiving; let's shout for joy to him with songs of praise.

3 For ADONAI is a great God, a great king greater than all gods.

4 He holds the depths of the earth in his hands; the mountain peaks too belong to him.

5 The sea is his - he made it -and his hands shaped the dry land.

6 Come, let's bow down and worship; let's kneel before ADONAI who made us.

7 For he is our God, and we are the people in his pasture, the sheep in his care. If only today you would listen to his voice:

8 "Don't harden your hearts, as you did at M'rivah, as you did on that day at Massah in the desert,

9 when your fathers put me to the test; they challenged me, even though they saw my work.

10 For forty years I loathed that generation; I said, 'This is a people whose hearts go astray, they don't understand how I do things.'

Psalms 95:1-10 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.