Psalms 95:7-11

7 For he is our ¹God, and we are the people of his ²pasture, and the sheep of his hand. ³Today, if you ⁴hear his voice,

8 ⁵do not harden your hearts, as at ⁶Meribah, as on the day at ⁷Massah in the wilderness,

9 when your fathers put me to the ⁸test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my ⁹work.

10 ¹⁰For forty years I loathed that generation and said, "They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known ¹¹my ways."

11 Therefore I ¹²swore in my wrath, "They shall not enter ¹³my rest."

Psalms 95:7-11 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.

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 48:14
• 2. See Psalms 74:1
• 3. Cited Heb. 3:7-11, 15; Hebrews 4:7
• 4. Numbers 14:22
• 5. Exodus 9:34; 1 Samuel 6:6; 2 Chronicles 36:13; Proverbs 28:14
• 6. Exodus 17:7; Numbers 20:13
• 7. Exodus 17:7; Deuteronomy 6:16
• 8. 1 Corinthians 10:9; [Ps. 78:18, 41, 56]
• 9. See Psalms 90:16; [Numbers 14:22]
• 10. Acts 7:36; Acts 13:18; Hebrews 3:17; [Deuteronomy 9:7]
• 11. [Psalms 81:13]
• 12. Num. 14:23, 28, 30; Deuteronomy 1:35; Cited Hebrews 3:11; Hebrews 4:3, 5
• 13. Deuteronomy 12:9