INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 95 This psalm, though without a title, was written by David, as appears from Hebrews 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... [ Continue Reading ]
O COME, LET US SING UNTO THE LORD,.... To Jehovah the Messiah, the Lord our righteousness; setting forth, in songs of praise, the glory of his person, the riches of his grace, and our thankfulness to him for spiritual mercies by him: Christ is to be the subject of our spiritual songs, and is the per... [ Continue Reading ]
LET US COME BEFORE HIS PRESENCE WITH THANKSGIVING,.... Come with the sacrifice of praise, there being no other in the days of the Messiah, all ceremonial sacrifices being put an end to when his sacrifice was offered up; so Arama observes, that the offering of thanksgiving shall remain, or be left in... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE LORD IS A GREAT GOD,.... Christ is truly and properly God, wherefore divine service is to be performed unto him; particularly singing psalms, setting forth therein his greatness and glory: and he is a great one; great in power, wisdom, justice, truth, mercy, and grace; greatness is to be asc... [ Continue Reading ]
IN HIS HAND ARE THE DEEP PLACES OF THE EARTH,.... The "penetrals" c 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,... [ Continue Reading ]
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 Mak... [ Continue Reading ]
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 d... [ Continue Reading ]
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; the... [ Continue Reading ]
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 hard... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN YOUR FATHERS TEMPTED ME,.... Or, "where" i; 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... [ Continue Reading ]
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, Psalms 78:8, wherefore, speaking after the manner of men, God was grieved with the... [ Continue Reading ]
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, a... [ Continue Reading ]