Bible Commentary

O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth. 1. O sing unto the Lord a new song ] From Isa 42:10. Cp. Psa 98:1; Psa 149:1; Psa 33:3. Fresh mercies demand fresh expressions of thanksgiving, and the deliverance of Israel from Babylon inaugurates a new stage in the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 96:1”

Unto whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. 11. Unto whom &c.] Or, Wherefore I sware. See Num 14:21 ff. my rest ] The Promised Land. Cp. Deu 12:9. Psa 95:7 c11 are quoted in Heb 3:7-11, and applied in detail as a warning to Christians who were … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 95:11”

Forty years long was I grieved with [this] generation, and said, It [is] a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: 10. was I grieved ] The Heb. is stronger; did I loathe (Eze 6:9). this generation ] “ This ” is not in the Heb., which seems … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 95:10”

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. 9. The Israelites tempted and tried God by faithless doubts of His goodness and arbitrary demands that He should prove His power (Exo 17:2; Exo 17:7; Psa 78:18; Psa 78:41; Psa 78:56). and saw my work ] While they on their part tempted God, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 95:9”

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, [and] as [in] the day of temptation in the wilderness: 8. Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness (R.V.). Meribah, Strife, and Massah, Temptation, were the names given to the scene of the murmuring at Rephidim at the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 95:8”

For he [is] our God; and we [are] the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today if ye will hear his voice, 7. our God ] P. B.V. the Lord our God, from the Vulg. the people &c.] The people whom He shepherds, the flock which is His own especial charge. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 95:7”

O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker. 6. Let us offer the lowliest homage expressive of humility and submission to His Will, in contrast to that obstinacy of heart ( Psa 95:8) which was the ruin of our fathers. our Maker ] It is the ‘making’ … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 95:6”

The sea [is] his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry [land]. 5. Whose is the sea, for HE made it; And the dry land, which his hands formed. Cp. Psa 24:1; Psa 89:11. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges The sea is his – Margin, as in Hebrew, Whose … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 95:5”

In his hand [are] the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills [is] his also. 4. In whose hand are the secret depths of earth, And to whom the peaks of the mountains belong. The depths of the earth which cannot be explored by man (Job 38:16; Jer 31:37), the soaring mountain … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 95:4”

For the LORD [is] a great God, and a great King above all gods. 3. The thoughts of the greatness of Jehovah, of His sovereignty, and of His supremacy over the gods of the heathen, are characteristic of this group of Psalms. They are not new thoughts (Exo 15:11; Exo 15:18), but fresh reality had … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 95:3”