New English Translation
Psalms 95:5
5The sea is his, for he made it. 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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)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.
Context of Psalms 95:5
3For the Lord is a great God, a great king who is superior to all gods. 4The depths of the earth are in his hand, and the mountain peaks belong to him. The sea is his, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land. 6Come! Let’s bow down and worship! Let’s kneel before the Lord, our creator! 7For he is our God; we are the people of his pasture, the sheep he owns. Today, if only you would obey him!
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 piles up the water of the sea; he puts the oceans in storehouses.
- Genesis 1:9God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.
- Job 38:10when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors,
- Proverbs 8:29when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
- Jeremiah 5:22“You should fear me!” says the Lord. “You should tremble in awe before me! I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier that it can never cross. Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail. They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.”
- Proverbs 8:26before he made the earth and its fields, or the beginning 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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