Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible · Psalms Kapitel 95

Ps 95:1-11.

David

(Heb 4:7)

exhorts men to praise God for His greatness, and warns them, in God's words, against neglecting His service.

1. The terms used to express the highest kind of joy.

rock--a firm basis, giving certainty of salvation

(Ps 62:7).

2. come . . . presence--literally, "approach," or, meet Him

(Ps 17:13).

3. above . . . gods--esteemed such by men, though really nothing

(Jer 5:7; 10:10-15).

4, 5. The terms used describe the world in its whole extent, subject to God.

6. come--or, "enter," with solemn forms, as well as hearts.

7. This relation illustrates our entire dependence (compare

Ps 23:3; 74:1).

The last clause is united by Paul

(Heb 3:7)

to the following (compare

Ps 81:8),

8-11. warning against neglect; and this is sustained by citing the melancholy fate of their rebellious ancestors, whose provoking insolence is described by quoting the language of God's complaint

(Nu 14:11)

of their conduct at Meribah and Massah, names given

(Ex 17:7)

to commemorate their strife and contention with Him

(Ps 78:18, 41).

10. err in their heart--Their wanderings in the desert were but types of their innate ignorance and perverseness.

that they should not--literally, "if they," &c., part of the form of swearing (compare

Nu 14:30; Ps 89:35).