PSALM XCV. (CANTATE DOMINO.)
An exhortation to praise God for the coming of Christ and his kingdom.
Fulness. Its raging billows, (Calmet) fishes, (Menochius) those who live upon the water. (Haydock) --- Let al testify their joy. Every thing is animated by the psalmist. (Calmet)
UNTO WHOM I SWARE IN MY WRATH - See the notes at Hebrews 3:11. THAT THEY SHOULD NOT ENTER INTO MY REST - Margin, as in Hebrew, “If they enter into my rest.” The “rest” here referred to was the land of...
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...
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...
UNTO WHOM. Where: as in Psalms 95:9 (see note on "When", Psalms 95:9). Hebrew. _'asher._ REST. The rest, thus lost, is to be yet found in the future (according to Hebrews 3:7;...
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...
UNTO WHOM I SWARE— _Wherefore I sware,_ &c. It is well known, that the land of Canaan was a type of heaven, where, after all his toils, the good and faithful servant is to enter into the joy of his Lo...
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...
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...
95:11 swore (g-4) Or 'Unto whom I swore.'...
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,...
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". ...
I SWARE. — Numbers 14:21. REST. — This is, of course, the Promised Land, as the context unmistakably shows. The freedom taken with the passage by the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, in order to...
אֲשֶׁר ־נִשְׁבַּ֥עְתִּי בְ אַפִּ֑י אִם ־יְ֝בֹא֗וּן...
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...
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...
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;...
Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into (h) my rest. (h) That is, into the land of Canaan, where he promised them rest....
The Holy Ghost hath given his decided comment upon this scripture, with reference to the church, Hebrews 3:4, and adverts to the circumstances of Israel at the waters of Massah and Meribah, Exodus 17:...
REFLECTIONS MY soul canst thou accept the invitation, and join with holy joy and love the pressing call of the church, and hasten to celebrate the praises of Jehovah Jesus, the Rock of thy salvation?...
11._Wherefore I have sworn in my wrath _I see no objection to the relative אשר, _asher, _being understood in its proper sense and reading — _To whom I have sworn. _The Greek version, taking it for a m...
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...
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 g...
Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. Ver. 11. _Unto whom I sware_] When put past all patience, _Patientia laesa fit furor._ Should not enter, &c.] Thus God sweareth...
_Unto whom I sware in my wrath_, &c. In my just displeasure, I passed an irreversible sentence upon them, and confirmed it by an oath: _that they should not enter into my rest_ Into the promised land,...
unto whom I sware in My wrath, a section of this solemn oath of Jehovah being quoted here, THAT THEY SHOULD NOT ENTER INTO MY REST. Cf Numbers 14:30. It was an emphatic declaration, supported by His o...
ADMONITION TO PRAISE JEHOVAH AND HEAR HIS WORD. By comparing verse 8 of this psalm with Hebrews 4:7, we find that it should be ascribed to David, either written by him personally or by one of his sin...
THAT THEY SHOULD NOT ENTER INTO MY REST: _ Heb._ if they enter into my rest...
7-11 Christ calls upon his people to hear his voice. You call him Master, or Lord; then be his willing, obedient people. Hear the voice of his doctrine, of his law, and in both, of his Spirit: hear a...
Being full of just wrath against them, I passed an irreversible sentence, and confirmed it by an oath; of which we read NUM 14. INTO MY REST; into the Promised Land, which is called the rest, DEUTERON...
Psalms 95:11 swore H7650 (H8738) wrath H639 enter H935 (H8799) rest H4496 I sware - Numbers
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...
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...
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...
_Unto whom I sware in My wrath, that they should not enter into My rest._ OBSTINATE SINNERS DOOMED TO ETERNAL PERDITION I. The ways by which God usually prepares and ripens a sinner for certain dest...
_Forty years long was I grieved with this generation._ ISRAEL’S PROVOCATION AGAINST GOD, AND THE PUNISHMENT INFLICTED ON THEM I. The conduct of israel. Their conduct was marked by ignorance and erro...
_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...
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
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...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 95:11 THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST. In the wilderness context, the “rest” is specifically the land (see Deuteronomy 12:9; finally secured during
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...
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...
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...
Deuteronomy 1:34; Deuteronomy 1:35; Genesis 2:2; Genesis 2:3; Hebrews
My rest — Into the promised land, which is called the rest, Deuteronomy 12:9....