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Psalms 95:7
7for 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!
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 belongs to him, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land, too. 6Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our maker, 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! 8The Lord says, “Don’t harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah, as they did at Massah in the wilderness. 9For there your ancestors tested and tried my patience, even though they saw everything 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 that is what God is like. He is our God forever and ever, and he will guide us until we die.
- Psalms 67:6Then the earth will yield its harvests, and God, our God, will richly bless us.
- Psalms 115:3Our God is in the heavens, and he does as he wishes.
- Exodus 15:2The Lord is my strength and my song; he has given me victory. This 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 rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of your slavery.
- Jeremiah 31:33“But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel after those days,” says the Lord. “I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
- Hebrews 11:16But they were looking for a better place, a heavenly homeland. That is why 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 have all that I need.
- Psalms 79:13Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will thank you forever and ever, praising your greatness from generation to generation.
- Psalms 80:1Please listen, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph’s descendants like a flock. O God, enthroned above the cherubim, display your radiant glory
- Psalms 100:3Acknowledge that the Lord is God! He made us, and we are his. We are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
- Isaiah 40:10Yes, the Sovereign Lord is coming in power. He will rule with a powerful arm. See, he brings his reward with him as he comes.
- Ezekiel 34:30In this way, they will know that I, the Lord their God, am with them. And they will know that they, the people of Israel, are my people, says the Sovereign Lord.
- John 10:3The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep recognize his voice and come to him. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
- John 10:14“I am the good shepherd; I know my own sheep, and they know me,
- Acts 20:28“So guard yourselves and God’s people. Feed and shepherd God’s flock—his church, purchased with his own blood—over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as leaders.
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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