Psalms 95:5-11

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

6 O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

7 For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. Today if ye will hear his voice,

8 harden not your heart, as in the provocation and as in the day of trials in the wilderness

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

10 Forty years long I was grieved with this generation and said, It is a people that err from the heart, who have not known my ways;

11 unto whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my 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.