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Psalms 95:7
7for 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,
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,
- 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:
- New Living Translation (NLT)for he is our God. We are the people he watches over, the flock under his care. If only you would listen to his voice today!
Context of Psalms 95:7
5The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. 6Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker; 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, 8“Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness, 9where your ancestors tested me; they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
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 48:14For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.
- Psalms 67:6The land yields its harvest; God, our God, blesses us.
- Psalms 115:3Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him.
- Exodus 15:2“The Lord is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
- Exodus 20:2“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
- Jeremiah 31:33“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
- Hebrews 11:16Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
- Psalms 23:1The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
- Psalms 79:13Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will praise you forever; from generation to generation we will proclaim your praise.
- Psalms 80:1Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth
- Psalms 100:3Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
- Isaiah 40:10See, the Sovereign Lord comes with power, and he rules with a mighty arm. See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him.
- Ezekiel 34:30Then they will know that I, the Lord their God, am with them and that they, the Israelites, are my people, declares the Sovereign Lord.
- John 10:3The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
- John 10:14“I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me—
- Acts 20:28Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought 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
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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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