God’s Word Translation
Psalms 95:7
7because he is our God and we are the people in his care, the flock that he leads. If only you would listen to him today!
Psalms 95:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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,
- New International Version (NIV)for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care. Today, if only you would hear his voice,
- English Standard Version (ESV)For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice,
- New King James Version (NKJV)For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice:
Context of Psalms 95:7
5The sea is his. He made it, and his hands formed the dry land. 6Come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel in front of the Lord, our maker, because he is our God and we are the people in his care, the flock that he leads. If only you would listen to him today! 8“Do not be stubborn like ⌞my people were⌟ at Meribah, like the time at Massah in the desert. 9Your ancestors challenged me and tested me there, although they had seen what I had done.
Read all of Psalms 95Psalms 95:7 word by word
כִּ֘י ה֤וּא אֱלֹהֵ֗ינוּ וַאֲנַ֤חְנוּ עַ֣ם מַ֭רְעִיתוֹ וְצֹ֣אן יָד֑וֹ הַ֝יּ֗וֹם אִֽם־בְּקֹל֥וֹ תִשְׁמָֽעוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 95:7
- Psalms 48:14“This God is our God forever and ever. He will lead us beyond death.”
- Psalms 67:6The earth has yielded its harvest. May God, our God, bless us.
- Psalms 115:3Our God is in heaven. He does whatever he wants.
- Exodus 15:2The Lord is my strength and my song. He is my Savior. This is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will honor him.
- Exodus 20:2“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of slavery in Egypt.
- Jeremiah 31:33“But this is the promise that I will make to Israel after those days,” declares the Lord: “I will put my teachings inside them, and I will write those teachings on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
- Hebrews 11:16Instead, these men were longing for a better country—a heavenly country. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God. He has prepared a city for them.
- Psalms 23:1The Lord is my shepherd. I am never in need.
- Psalms 79:13Then we, your people, the flock in your pasture, will give thanks to you forever. We will praise you throughout every generation.
- Psalms 80:1Open your ears, O Shepherd of Israel, the one who leads ⌞the descendants of⌟ Joseph like sheep, the one who is enthroned over the angels.
- Psalms 100:3Realize that the Lord alone is God. He made us, and we are his. We are his people and the sheep in his care.
- Isaiah 40:10The Almighty Lord is coming with power to rule with authority. His reward is with him, and the people he has won arrive ahead of him.
- Ezekiel 34:30Then they will know that I, the Lord their God, am with them and that they, the people of Israel, are my people, declares the Almighty Lord.
- John 10:3The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep respond to his voice. He calls his sheep by name and leads them out of the pen.
- John 10:14“I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep as the Father knows me. My sheep know me as I know the Father.
- Acts 20:28Pay attention to yourselves and to the entire flock in which the Holy Spirit has placed you as bishops to be shepherds for God’s church which he acquired with his own blood.
Commentaries on Psalms 95:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7For he is our God - Here is the reason for this service. He has condescended to enter into a covenant with us, and he has taken us for his own; therefore: - We are the people of his pasture - Or, rather, as the Chaldee, Syriac, Vulgate, and Ethiopic read, "We are his people, and the sheep of the pasture of his hand." We are his own; he feeds and governs us, and his powerful hand protects us. To-day if ye will hear his voice - To-day-you have no time to…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7For he is our God - Not only the God whom we worship as the true God, but One who has revealed himself to us as our God. We worship him as God - as entitled to praise and adoration because he is the true God; we worship him also as sustaining the relation of God to us, or because we recognize him as our God, and because he has manifested himself as ours. And we are the people of his pasture - whom he has recognized as his flock; to whom he sustains the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-7The great King cares for his people like a shepherd cares for sheep (Isaiah 40:11). The Lord, our Maker, the Creator of heaven and earth, also created a people for himself (Isaiah 45:9–12; 51:12–16).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. This relation illustrates our entire dependence (compare Psa 23:3; 74:1). The last clause is united by Paul (He 3:7) to the following (compare Psa 81:8),Read the comment
Topics related to Psalms 95:7
In the dictionaries
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
God’s Word Translation — © 1995 God’s Word to the Nations Bible Society
Commentaries