Psalms Chapter 95 (WEB)

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Psalms 95 is part of “Book IV: The Numbers Book” (90–106) in the outline of Psalms.

Psalms 95 summary

For the expounding of this psalm we may borrow a great deal of light from the apostle's discourse, Heb. 3 and 4, where it appears both to have been penned by David and to have been calculated for the days of the Messiah; for it is there said expressly (Heb 4:7) that the day here spoken of (Psa 95:7) is to be understood of the gospel day, in which God speaks to us by his Son in a voice which we are concerned to hear, and proposes to us a rest besides that of Canaan. In singing psalms it is intended, I. That we should "make melody unto the Lord;" this we are here excited to do, and assisted in doing, being called upon to praise God (Psa 95:1, Psa 95:2) as a great God (Psa 95:3-5) and as our gracious benefactor (Psa 95:6, Psa 95:7). II. That we should teach and admonish ourselves and one another; and we are here taught and warned to hear God's voice (Psa 95:7), and not to harden our hearts, as the Israelites in the wilderness did (Psa 95:8, Psa 95:9), lest we fall under God's wrath and fall short of his rest, as they did (Psa 95:10, Psa 95:11). This psalm must be sung with a holy reverence of God's majesty and a dread of his justice, with a desire to please him and a fear to offend him.

Source: Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (1706–21; Romans–Revelation completed by Nonconformist ministers). Public domain. Digital text: Free Use Bible API (bible.helloao.org).

1. 1 Oh come, let’s sing to the LORD. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!
2. 2 Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!
3. 3 For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.
4. 4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his.
5. 5 The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.
6. 6 Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before the LORD, our Maker,
7. 7 for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
8. 8 Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
9. 9 when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
10. 10 Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “They are a people who err in their heart. They have not known my ways.”
11. 11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”