Psalm 95:7 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 95:7

Our moral relations with God. "People of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand." Some writers try to amend this sentence, because the poetical figure seems complicated. It is much better to leave it in its poetical suggestiveness. It indicates familiarity with Eastern shepherding. The shepherd lives with his flock day and night; feels for them a personal affection; tends them in all their times of need with his own hands. So the Eastern sheep and shepherd figures, for God and his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 95:7-11

The warning against waywardness. This is delivered in four, or rather four and a half, verses, and commences with the words, "Today if ye will hear his voice." read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 95:7

For he is our God - Not only the God whom we worship as the true God, but One who has revealed himself to us as our God. We worship him as God - as entitled to praise and adoration because he is the true God; we worship him also as sustaining the relation of God to us, or because we recognize him as our God, and because he has manifested himself as ours.And we are the people of his pasture - whom he has recognized as his flock; to whom he sustains the relation of shepherd; who feeds and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 95:7

Psalms 95:7. For he is our God He not only has dominion over us, as he has over all the creatures, but stands in a special relation to us. He is our God in a peculiar sense, and therefore it would be most unreasonable and wicked if we should forsake him, when even the Gentiles shall submit to his law. And we are the people of his pasture Whom he feeds in his church, with his word and by his ordinances, and defends by his watchful providence. And the sheep of his hand Under his special... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Psalms 95:1-11

Psalms 95-96 God the creator of the universeSix psalms, 95 to 100, are grouped so as to form a series for use in temple worship. The first psalm opens by calling people to worship God because he is the saviour (95:1-2), the great God (3), the creator and controller of the universe (4-5), the maker of the human race (6) and, above all, the covenant Lord and shepherd of his people (7). Worship, however, must be joined to obedience. Israel’s experiences in the wilderness show that people might... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 95:7

God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4 . To day, &c. Compare Hebrews 3:7-11 ; Hebrews 4:1 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 95:7

Psalms 95:7. To-day if ye will hear his voice— The people having said, We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand, God is introduced, saying, "Since then you are so, from this day be not like your fathers; behave like my sheep, and harden not your hearts." It is plain, therefore, that the voice of God must begin here; accordingly, this sentence should begin the 8th verse, and be rendered thus: From this day, if you will hear my voice, harden not your heart as at Meribah, as in... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 95:7

7. This relation illustrates our entire dependence (compare Psalms 23:3; Psalms 74:1). The last clause is united by Paul (Hebrews 3:7) to the following (compare Psalms 81:8), read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 95:1-7

1. Exhortation to praise the sovereign Lord 95:1-7a read more