Psalms 95 - Introduction

A.M. 2959. B.C. 1045.

This Psalm seems to have been intended as a solemn invitation to the people, when they were assembled together on some public occasion, to praise their God, and hear instruction out of his law. But it has also a special reference to the days of the Messiah, as the Jewish doctors themselves acknowledge, and as the apostle proves, in the third and fourth Chapter s of the epistle to the Hebrews, where he not only expounds it of those days, but shows that one passage, at least, of it must have been primarily meant of them, not being applicable to the former times and state of the church. Like the last two, it is without any title in the Hebrew, but the Greeks attribute it to David; and the apostle, in the above-mentioned epistle, quotes it under his name. Herein we are called upon to praise God, as a great and gracious God, Psalms 95:1. To hear God's voice and not harden our hearts, lest we fall as the Israelites did, Psalms 95:8.