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Psalms 95:7

For He is our God, the emphasis being both upon "He" and upon "our"; and we are the people of His pasture, the flock nourished by Him, through His Word, and the sheep of His hand, the flock guided and protected by His almighty hand. Today, if ye will hear His voice, the admonition calling upon all men to decide in favor of the Lord and His Word,

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 95:7. _FOR HE_ IS _OUR GOD_] Here is the reason for this service. He has condescended to enter into a _covenant_ with us, and he has taken us for his own; therefore - _WE_ ARE _THE PEOP...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 t...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 95 In Anticipation of His Coming _ 1. Singing unto Him? (Psalms 95:1)_ 2. Let us worship and bow down (Psalms 95:6) It is a call to Israel in anticipation of the soon appearing of the expec...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    XCV. A HYMN OF PRAISE. The greatness of God in nature. A warning from the history of Israel in the wilderness. There is no cogent reason for dividing the Ps. into two. For Massah and Meribah. see Exod...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. TO DAY, &C. Compare Hebrews 3:7; Hebrews 4:1....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 660 DEVOTION TO GOD RECOMMENDED AND ENFORCED Psalms 95:6. O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is our God; and we are the people of his pastur...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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 yo...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    Psalms 92-97 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Service of Song for a Sabbath Day. ANALYSIS Psalms 92: Personal SongProbably by a King. Psalms 93: Jehovah Proclaimed King. Psalms 94: Prayer for Vengeance on the...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice, -Warning against hardening the heart, and so forfeiting the Lord's promised res...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This Ps. (the 'Venite,' 'Invitatory Psalm') consists of a call to praise God as King, as the Creator of the world, and the Shepherd of His people (Psalms 95:1), followed by a warning against unbelief,...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    IF YE WILL] RV 'Oh that ye would.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 90:106 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE! PSALMS 95 (THE SECOND *ROYAL PSALM) Jesus said, "Go and do not break God's rules again". ...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    TO-DAY IF... — In joining this clause with Psalms 95:8 the Authorised Version follows the LXX. The Masoretic text connects it with the preceding part of the verse, and there seems no good reason for d...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֘י ה֤וּא אֱלֹהֵ֗ינוּ וַ אֲנַ֤חְנוּ עַ֣ם מ֭

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 95:1 THIS psalm is obviously divided into two parts, but there is no reason for seeing in these two originally unconnected fragments. Rather does each part derive force from the other; and noth...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    PRAISE THE LORD AND TEMPT HIM NOT Psalms 95:1 This psalm is deeply inwoven into the life of the Church, because of the worshipful strain which pervades it, and also because of the illuminating manner...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    We pause here to note a connection between a group of psalms, viz., Psalms 93:1; Psalms 94:1; Psalms 95:1; Psalms 96:1;...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For he [is] our God; and we [are] the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his (e) hand. To day if ye will hear his voice, (e) That is, the flock whom he governs with his own hand. He shows how th...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Kindreds; patriæ, or families, as it is expressed, 1 Paralipomenon xvi. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The call is again in a beautiful manner repeated, and the invitation to praise him is now joined with a request also to pray to him, to fall down before him, both as our Maker in original creation, an...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    7_Because he is our God _While it is true that all men were created to praise God, there are reasons why the Church is specially said to have been formed for that end, (Isaiah 61:3.) The Psalmist was...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    From Psalms 95 to 100 we have the progress of the introduction of the Only-begotten into the world most distinctly brought out; but here, all through, seen as Jehovah coming from heaven in judgment, a...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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 upo...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For he [is] our God; and we [are] the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice, Ver. 7. _The people of his pasture_] Whom he turns not out into commons and f...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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 unreas...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-7 Whenever we come into God's presence, we must come with thanksgiving. The Lord is to be praised; we do not want matter, it were well if we did not want a heart. How great is that God, whose the w...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    OUR GOD, in a peculiar manner; and therefore it will be most unreasonable and abominable for us to forsake him, when the Gentiles submit to his law. _The people of his pasture_; whom he feedeth and ke...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 95:7 God H430 people H5971 pasture H4830 sheep H6629 hand H3027 Today H3117 hear H8085 (H8799) voice...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 95:1. _O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalm...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 95:1. _O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation._ The worship of God should always be joyful, hence there is to be much singing in it. God is...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: A call to praise God as our gracious benefactor. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: It is due our God and King that we should speak forth and sing forth His praises out of the abundanc...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    The Jews with one consent refer this psalm to the days of the Messiah. St. Paul had therefore the fullest authority for addressing it to the Hebrews. It was composed by David, when God had put all adj...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _O come, let us sing unto the Lord._ THE GRANDEST OF CREATURE SERVICES I. It is the most righteous. Adoration rendered to-- 1. The greatest Being. (1) Great in Himself (Psalms 95:3). (2) Great in...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker._ CONGREGATIONAL WORSHIP I. Its principle. God made each, and God rules all; and while of each is demanded individual ackn...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _To-day if ye will hear His voice, harden not your heart, as in the provocation._ TO-DAY I. The time specified--“To-day if ye will hear His voice.” This is the uniform time and tense of the Holy Gho...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 95:1. This psalm encourages its singers to learn from the rebellion of a previous generation. They should faithfully heed God’s “voice” (vv. Psalm

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 95:7 Since worship includes the priests reading and explaining the Scriptures, the worshipers will HEAR HIS VOICE, but they must then believe and obey their great King. This secti...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION “This Psalm is one of a series intended for the Temple worship, and possibly composed for some festal occasion. Both the joyfulness of its opening verses, and its general character, in wh...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THIS is a liturgical psalm, probably composed for the temple service, and still used in the synagogue as one of the Friday evening Psalms which introduce the sabbath. The Western Church has...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. For the LOR...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 2:25; Acts 20:28; Exodus 15:2; Exodus 20:2; Ezekiel 34:30;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Pasture — Whom he feeds and keeps in his own pasture, or in the land which he hath appropriated to himself. The sheep — Which are under his special care. Today — Forthwith or presently....

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