English Standard Version
Psalms 95:5
5The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.
Psalms 95:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
- New International Version (NIV)The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The sea is His, for He made it; And His hands formed the dry land.
- New Living Translation (NLT)The sea belongs to him, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land, too.
Context of Psalms 95:5
3For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. 4In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. 6Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker! 7For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice,
Read all of Psalms 95Psalms 95:5 word by word
אֲשֶׁר־ל֣וֹ הַ֭יָּם וְה֣וּא עָשָׂ֑הוּ וְ֝יַבֶּ֗שֶׁת יָדָ֥יו יָצָֽרוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 95:5
- Psalms 33:7He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses.
- Genesis 1:9And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so.
- Job 38:10and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors,
- Proverbs 8:29when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
- Jeremiah 5:22Do you not fear me? declares the Lord. Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.
- Proverbs 8:26before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world.
Commentaries on Psalms 95:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5The sea is his - The sea and the dry land are equally his, for he has formed them both, and they are his property. He governs and disposes of them as he sees good. He is the absolute Master of universal nature. Therefore there is no other object of worship nor of confidence.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5The sea is his - Margin, as in Hebrew, “Whose the sea is.” That is, The sea belongs to him, with all which it contains. And he made it - It is his, “because” he made it. The creation of anything gives the highest possible right over it. And his hands formed the dry land - He has a claim, therefore, that it should be recognized as his, and that all who dwell upon it, and derive their support from it, should acknowledge him as its great Owner and Lord.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-5All creation exists because of the Lord alone, not because of many gods.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-54-5. The terms used describe the world in its whole extent, subject to God.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 95
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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