Psalms 95:5-11

5 He made Ocean - he owns it! His hands sculpted Earth!

6 So come, let us worship: bow before him, on your knees before God, who made us!

7 Oh yes, he's our God, and we're the people he pastures, the flock he feeds. Drop everything and listen, listen as he speaks:

8 "Don't turn a deaf ear as in the Bitter Uprising, As on the day of the Wilderness Test,

9 when your ancestors turned and put me to the test.

10 For forty years they watched me at work among them, as over and over they tried my patience. And I was provoked - oh, was I provoked! 'Can't they keep their minds on God for five minutes? Do they simply refuse to walk down my road?'

11 Exasperated, I exploded, 'They'll never get where they're headed, never be able to sit down and rest.'"

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.