Psalms 95:1-9

1 Come, let us sing aloud to Jehovah, let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation;

2 Let us come before his face with thanksgiving; let us shout aloud unto him with psalms.

3 For Jehovah is a great God, and a great king above all gods.

4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also:

5 The sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry [land].

6 Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker.

7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. To-day if ye hear his voice,

8 Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as [in] the day of Massah, in the wilderness;

9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

Psalms 95:1-9 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.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or 'treasures,' as Job 22.25, 'heaped up.'
• [b]. Strife.
• [c]. Temptation.