Psalm 95:4-11 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 95:1-6

The psalmist here, as often elsewhere, stirs up himself and others to praise God; for it is a duty which ought to be performed with the most lively affections, and which we have great need to be excited to, being very often backward to it and cold in it. Observe, I. How God is to be praised. 1. With holy joy and delight in him. The praising song must be a joyful noise, Ps. 95:1 and again Ps. 95:2. Spiritual joy is the heart and soul of thankful praise. It is the will of God (such is the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 95:7-11

The latter part of this psalm, which begins in the middle of a verse, is an exhortation to those who sing gospel psalms to live gospel lives, and to hear the voice of God's word; otherwise, how can they expect that he should hear the voice of their prayers and praises? Observe, I. The duty required of all those that are the people of Christ's pasture and the sheep of his hand. He expects that they hear his voice, for he has said, My sheep hear my voice, John 10:27. We are his people, say they.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 95:4

In his hand are the deep places of the earth ,.... The "penetrals" F3 מחקרי "penetralia terrae", Musculus, Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis. of it; not only what are penetrated by men, the minerals that are in it; but what are of such deep recess as to be penetrated only by the Lord himself; these are in the hands and power of Christ, which he can search into, discover, and dispose of; these are the foundations of the earth, which cannot be searched out beneath by men, Jeremiah 31:37 ,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 95:5

The sea is his, and he made it ,.... He made it, and therefore it is, and all creatures in it; he sets bounds to it, and its waves, and restrains the raging of it at his pleasure, Matthew 8:26 , and his hands formed the dry land ; the whole world, all besides the sea, the vast continent; he is the Maker of it, and all creatures in it; without him was nothing made that is made; and, being the Creator of all things, is the proper object of worship, John 1:2 , as follows. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 95:6

O come, let us worship and bow down ,.... Before him who is the Rock of our salvation, the great God and great King, the Creator of the ends of the earth, the proper object of all religious worship and adoration: Christ is to be worshipped with every part of external worship under the New Testament dispensation; psalms and songs of praise are to be sung unto him; prayer is to be made unto him; the Gospel is to be preached, and ordinances to be administered, in his name; and likewise with all... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 95:7

For he is our God ,.... God over all, blessed for ever, truly and properly God, and therefore to be worshipped: "our God"; in whom we have interest, who became our head and surety in covenant; took upon him our nature, is our "Immanuel", God with as, which increases the obligation to worship him; these are the words of New Testament saints: and we are the people of his pasture ; for whom he has provided a good pasture; whom he leads into it, and feeds in it, even by the ministry of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 95:8

Harden not your hearts ,.... Against Christ, against his Gospel, against all the light and evidence of it. There is a natural hardness of the heart, owing to the corruption of nature; and an habitual hardness, acquired by a constant continuance and long custom in sinning; and there is a judicial hardness, which God gives men up unto. There is a hardness of heart, which sometimes attends God's own people, through the deceitfulness of sin gaining upon them; of which, when sensible, they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 95:9

When your fathers tempted me ,.... Or, "where" F9 אשר "quo", Pagninus, Montanus; "ubi", V. L. Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Gejerus, so Ainsworth. ; that is, in the wilderness, particularly at Meribah and Massah; it was Christ they tempted, as appears from 1 Corinthians 10:9 . proved me : had proof of his power, goodness, and mercy, in providing for them, and in the preservation of them: or "tried" F11 בחנוני "explorarunt me", Tigurine version, Piscator, Gejerus. ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 95:10

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation ,.... The generation of the wilderness, as the Jews commonly call them; and which was a stubborn and a rebellious one, whose heart and spirit were not right with God, Psalm 78:8 , wherefore, speaking after the manner of men, God was grieved with them, as he was with the old world, Genesis 6:6 , or he was "weary" of them, and "loathed" them as the word F12 אקוט "fastidio habui", Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Gejerus, so... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 95:11

Unto whom I sware in my wrath ,.... Being angry with them, he sware for the confirmation of what he said; the form of the oath was, "as truly as I live"; he sware by himself, for he could swear by no greater; see Numbers 14:21 . that they should not enter into my rest ; the land of Canaan, or Israel, as Kimchi; which the Lord provided, promised, and gave to the Israelites, as their rest; the land of Israel and Jerusalem, as Jarchi; or the house of the sanctuary, the temple, as the... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 95:1-6

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 95:7-11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 95:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 95:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 95:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 95:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 95:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 95:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 95:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 95:11

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