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Ps 95:7	Strong Concordance	For he is our God [0430]; and we are the people [05971] of his pasture [04830], and the sheep [06629] of his hand [03027]. To day [03117] if ye will hear [08085] his voice [06963],
	King James	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,

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
This relation illustrates our entire dependence (compare Psa 23:3; Psa 74:1). The last clause is united by Paul (Heb 3:7) to the following (compare Psa 81:8),

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

This relation illustrates our entire dependence (compare Psa 23:3; Psa 74:1). The last clause is united by Paul (Heb 3:7) to the following (compare Psa 81:8),

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
For 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 relation of shepherd; who feeds and protects us as the shepherd does his flock. See the notes at Psa 79:13; compare Psa 23:1-3. And the sheep of his hand - The flock that is guided and fed by his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice - His voice calling you; commanding you; inviting you; encouraging you. See this passage explained in the notes at Heb 3:7-11. The word "today" here means "the present time;" now. The idea is, that the purpose to obey should not be deferred until tomorrow; should not be put off to the future. The commands of God should be obeyed at once; the purpose should be executed immediately. All God's commands relate to the present. He gives us none for the future; and a true purpose to obey God exists only where there is a willingness to obey "now," "today;" and can exist only then. A purpose to repent at some future time, to give up the world at some future time, to embrace the Gospel at some future time, is "no obedience," for there is no such command addressed to us. A resolution to put off repentance and faith, to defer attention to religion until some future time, is real disobedience - and often the worst form of disobedience - for it is directly in the face of the command of God. "If ye will hear." That is, If there is a disposition or willingness to obey his voice at all; or, to listen to his commands. See the notes at Heb 3:7.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
The second decastich begins in the midst of the Masoretic Psa 95:7. Up to this point the church stirs itself up to a worshipping appearing before its God; now the voice of God (Heb 4:7), earnestly admonishing, meets it, resounding from out of the sanctuary. Since שׁמע בּ signifies not merely to hear, but to hear obediently, Psa 95:7 cannot be a conditioning protasis to what follows. Hengstenberg wishes to supply the apodosis: "then will He bless you, His people;" but אם in other instances too (Psa 81:9; Psa 139:19; Pro 24:11), like לוּ, has an optative signification, which it certainly has gained by a suppression of a promissory apodosis, but yet without the genius of the language having any such in mind in every instance. The word היּום placed first gives prominence to the present, in which this call to obedience goes forth, as a decisive turning-point. The divine voice warningly calls to mind the self-hardening of Israel, which came to light at Merמbah, on the day of Massah. What is referred to, as also in Psa 81:8, is the tempting of God in the second year of the Exodus on account of the failing of water in the neighbourhood of Horeb, at the place which is for this reason called Massah u-Merı̂bah (Exo 17:1-7); from which is to be distinguished the tempting of God in the fortieth year of the Exodus at Merı̂bah, viz., at the waters of contention near Kadesh (written fully Mê-Merı̂bah Kadesh, or more briefly Mê-Merı̂bah), Num 20:2-13 (cf. on Psa 78:20). Strictly כמריבה signifies nothing but instar Meribae, as in Psa 83:10 instar Midianitarum; but according to the sense, כּ is equivalent to כּעל. Psa 106:32, just as כּיום is equivalent to כּביום. On אשׁר, quum, cf. Deu 11:6. The meaning of גּם־ראוּ פעלי is not they also (גם as in Psa 52:7) saw His work; for the reference to the giving of water out of the rock would give a thought that is devoid of purpose here, and the assertion is too indefinite for it to be understood of the judgment upon those who tempted God (Hupfeld and Hitzig). It is therefore rather to be rendered: notwithstanding (ho'moos, Ew. 354, a) they had (= although they had, cf. גם in Isa 49:15) seen His work (His wondrous guiding and governing), and might therefore be sure that He would not suffer them to be destroyed. The verb קוּט coincides with κοτέω, κότος. בּדּור .ען, for which the lxx has τῇ γενεᾷ ἐκείνη, is anarthrous in order that the notion may be conceived of more qualitatively than relatively: with a (whole) generation. With ואמר Jahve calls to mind the repeated declarations of His vexation concerning their heart, which was always inclined towards error which leads to destruction - declarations, however, which bore no fruit. Just this ineffectiveness of His indignation had as its result that (אשׁר, not ὅτι but ὥστε, as in Gen 13:16; Deu 28:27, Deu 28:51; Kg2 9:37, and frequently) He sware, etc. (אם = verily not, Gesen. 155, 2, f, with the emphatic future form in n which follows). It is the oath in Num 14:27. that is meant. The older generation died in the desert, and therefore lost the entering into the rest of God, by reason of their disobedience. If now, many centuries after Moses, they are invited in the Davidic Psalter to submissive adoration of Jahve, with the significant call: "To-day if ye will hearken to His voice!" and with a reference to the warning example of the fathers, the obedience of faith, now as formerly, has therefore to look forward to the gracious reward of entering into God's rest, which the disobedient at that time lost; and the taking possession of Canaan was, therefore, not as yet the final מנוּחה (Deu 12:9). This is the connection of the wider train of thought which to the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews Heb 3:1, Heb 4:1, follows from this text of the Psalm.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

The second decastich begins in the midst of the Masoretic Psa 95:7. Up to this point the church stirs itself up to a worshipping appearing before its God; now the voice of God (Heb 4:7), earnestly admonishing, meets it, resounding from out of the sanctuary. Since שׁמע בּ signifies not merely to hear, but to hear obediently, Psa 95:7 cannot be a conditioning protasis to what follows. Hengstenberg wishes to supply the apodosis: "then will He bless you, His people;" but אם in other instances too (Psa 81:9; Psa 139:19; Pro 24:11), like לוּ, has an optative signification, which it certainly has gained by a suppression of a promissory apodosis, but yet without the genius of the language having any such in mind in every instance. The word היּום placed first gives prominence to the present, in which this call to obedience goes forth, as a decisive turning-point. The divine voice warningly calls to mind the self-hardening of Israel, which came to light at Merמbah, on the day of Massah. What is referred to, as also in Psa 81:8, is the tempting of God in the second year of the Exodus on account of the failing of water in the neighbourhood of Horeb, at the place which is for this reason called Massah u-Merı̂bah (Exo 17:1-7); from which is to be distinguished the tempting of God in the fortieth year of the Exodus at Merı̂bah, viz., at the waters of contention near Kadesh (written fully Mê-Merı̂bah Kadesh, or more briefly Mê-Merı̂bah), Num 20:2-13 (cf. on Psa 78:20). Strictly כמריבה signifies nothing but instar Meribae, as in Psa 83:10 instar Midianitarum; but according to the sense, כּ is equivalent to כּעל. Psa 106:32, just as כּיום is equivalent to כּביום. On אשׁר, quum, cf. Deu 11:6. The meaning of גּם־ראוּ פעלי is not they also (גם as in Psa 52:7) saw His work; for the reference to the giving of water out of the rock would give a thought that is devoid of purpose here, and the assertion is too indefinite for it to be understood of the judgment upon those who tempted God (Hupfeld and Hitzig). It is therefore rather to be rendered: notwithstanding (ho'moos, Ew. 354, a) they had (= although they had, cf. גם in Isa 49:15) seen His work (His wondrous guiding and governing), and might therefore be sure that He would not suffer them to be destroyed. The verb קוּט coincides with κοτέω, κότος. בּדּור .ען, for which the lxx has τῇ γενεᾷ ἐκείνη, is anarthrous in order that the notion may be conceived of more qualitatively than relatively: with a (whole) generation. With ואמר Jahve calls to mind the repeated declarations of His vexation concerning their heart, which was always inclined towards error which leads to destruction - declarations, however, which bore no fruit. Just this ineffectiveness of His indignation had as its result that (אשׁר, not ὅτι but ὥστε, as in Gen 13:16; Deu 28:27, Deu 28:51; Kg2 9:37, and frequently) He sware, etc. (אם = verily not, Gesen. 155, 2, f, with the emphatic future form in n which follows). It is the oath in Num 14:27. that is meant. The older generation died in the desert, and therefore lost the entering into the rest of God, by reason of their disobedience. If now, many centuries after Moses, they are invited in the Davidic Psalter to submissive adoration of Jahve, with the significant call: "To-day if ye will hearken to His voice!" and with a reference to the warning example of the fathers, the obedience of faith, now as formerly, has therefore to look forward to the gracious reward of entering into God's rest, which the disobedient at that time lost; and the taking possession of Canaan was, therefore, not as yet the final מנוּחה (Deu 12:9). This is the connection of the wider train of thought which to the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews Heb 3:1, Heb 4:1, follows from this text of the Psalm.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Pasture - Whom he feeds and keeps in his own pasture, or in the land which he hath appropriated to himself. The sheep - Which are under his special care. Today - Forthwith or presently.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
For 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 lose; to-morrow may be too late. God calls to-day; to-morrow he may be silent. This should commence the eighth verse, as it begins what is supposed to be the part of the priest or prophet who now exhorts the people; as if he had said: Seeing you are in so good a spirit, do not forget your own resolutions, and harden not your hearts, "as your fathers did in Meribah and Massah, in the wilderness;" the same fact and the same names as are mentioned Exo 17:7; when the people murmured at Rephidim, because they had no water; hence it was called Meribah, contention or provocation, and Massah, temptation.

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⁸ Hear [08085], O my people [05971], and I will testify [05749] unto thee: O Israel [03478], if thou wilt hearken [08085] unto me;

⁷ Wherefore [1352] (as [2531] the Holy [40] Ghost [4151] saith [3004], To day [4594] if [1437] ye will hear [191] his [846] voice [5456],

¹ Maschil [04905] of Asaph [0623]. O God [0430], why hast thou cast us off [02186] for ever [05331]? why doth thine anger [0639] smoke [06225] against the sheep [06629] of thy pasture [04830]?

³ He restoreth [07725] my soul [05315]: he leadeth [05148] me in the paths [04570] of righteousness [06664] for his name's [08034] sake.

⁷ Wherefore [1352] (as [2531] the Holy [40] Ghost [4151] saith [3004], To day [4594] if [1437] ye will hear [191] his [846] voice [5456],

⁷ Wherefore [1352] (as [2531] the Holy [40] Ghost [4151] saith [3004], To day [4594] if [1437] ye will hear [191] his [846] voice [5456],
⁸ Harden [4645] not [3361] your [5216] hearts [2588], as [5613] in [1722] the provocation [3894], in [2596] the day [2250] of temptation [3986] in [1722] the wilderness [2048]:
⁹ When [3757] your [5216] fathers [3962] tempted [3985] me [3165], proved [1381] me [3165], and [2532] saw [1492] my [3450] works [2041] forty [5062] years [2094].
¹⁰ Wherefore [1352] I was grieved [4360] with that [1565] generation [1074], and [2532] said [2036], They do [4105] alway [104] err [4105] in their heart [2588]; and [1161] they [846] have [1097] not [3756] known [1097] my [3450] ways [3598].
¹¹ So [5613] I sware [3660] in [1722] my [3450] wrath [3709], They shall [1525] not [1487] enter [1525] into [1519] my [3450] rest [2663].)

¹ A Psalm [04210] of David [01732]. The LORD [03068] is my shepherd [07462]; I shall not want [02637].
² He maketh me to lie down [07257] in green [01877] pastures [04999]: he leadeth [05095] me beside the still [04496] waters [04325].
³ He restoreth [07725] my soul [05315]: he leadeth [05148] me in the paths [04570] of righteousness [06664] for his name's [08034] sake.

¹³ So we thy people [05971] and sheep [06629] of thy pasture [04830] will give thee thanks [03034] for ever [05769]: we will shew forth [05608] thy praise [08416] to all [01755] generations [01755].

¹ Let us [5399] therefore [3767] fear [5399], lest [3379], a promise [1860] being left [2641] us of entering [1525] into [1519] his [846] rest [2663], any [5100] of [1537] you [5216] should seem [1380] to come short of it [5302].

¹ Wherefore [3606], holy [40] brethren [80], partakers [3353] of the heavenly [2032] calling [2821], consider [2657] the Apostle [652] and [2532] High Priest [749] of our [2257] profession [3671], Christ [5547] Jesus [2424];

⁹ For ye are not as yet come [0935] to the rest [04496] and to the inheritance [05159], which the LORD [03068] your God [0430] giveth [05414] you.

²⁷ How long shall I bear with this evil [07451] congregation [05712], which murmur [03885] against me? I have heard [08085] the murmurings [08519] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478], which they murmur [03885] against me.

³⁷ And the carcase [05038] of Jezebel [0348] shall be as dung [01828] upon the face [06440] of the field [07704] in the portion [02506] of Jezreel [03157]; so that they shall not say [0559], This is Jezebel [0348].

⁵¹ And he shall eat [0398] the fruit [06529] of thy cattle [0929], and the fruit [06529] of thy land [0127], until thou be destroyed [08045]: which also shall not leave [07604] thee either corn [01715], wine [08492], or oil [03323], or the increase [07698] of thy kine [0504], or flocks [06251] of thy sheep [06629], until he have destroyed [06] thee.

²⁷ The LORD [03068] will smite [05221] thee with the botch [07822] of Egypt [04714], and with the emerods [02914] [06076], and with the scab [01618], and with the itch [02775], whereof thou canst [03201] not be healed [07495].

¹⁶ And I will make [07760] thy seed [02233] as the dust [06083] of the earth [0776]: so that [0834] if a man [0376] can [03201] number [04487] the dust [06083] of the earth [0776], then shall thy seed [02233] also be numbered [04487].

¹⁵ Can a woman [0802] forget [07911] her sucking child [05764], that she should not have compassion [07355] on the son [01121] of her womb [0990]? yea, they may forget [07911], yet will I not forget [07911] thee.

⁷ Lo, this is the man [01397] that made [07760] not God [0430] his strength [04581]; but trusted [0982] in the abundance [07230] of his riches [06239], and strengthened [05810] himself in his wickedness [01942].

⁶ And what he did [06213] unto Dathan [01885] and Abiram [048], the sons [01121] of Eliab [0446], the son [01121] of Reuben [07205]: how the earth [0776] opened [06475] her mouth [06310], and swallowed them up [01104], and their households [01004], and their tents [0168], and all the substance [03351] that was in their possession [07272], in the midst [07130] of all Israel [03478]:

³² They angered [07107] him also at the waters [04325] of strife [04808] [04809], so that it went ill [03415] with Moses [04872] for their sakes:

¹⁰ Which perished [08045] at Endor [05874]: they became as dung [01828] for the earth [0127].

²⁰ Behold, he smote [05221] the rock [06697], that the waters [04325] gushed out [02100], and the streams [05158] overflowed [07857]; can [03201] he give [05414] bread [03899] also? can [03201] he provide [03559] flesh [07607] for his people [05971]?

² And there was no water [04325] for the congregation [05712]: and they gathered [06950] themselves together against Moses [04872] and against Aaron [0175].
³ And the people [05971] chode [07378] with Moses [04872], and spake [0559], saying [0559], Would God that [03863] we had died [01478] when our brethren [0251] died [01478] before [06440] the LORD [03068]!
⁴ And why have ye brought up [0935] the congregation [06951] of the LORD [03068] into this wilderness [04057], that we and our cattle [01165] should die [04191] there?
⁵ And wherefore have ye made us to come up [05927] out of Egypt [04714], to bring [0935] us in unto this evil [07451] place [04725]? it is no place [04725] of seed [02233], or of figs [08384], or of vines [01612], or of pomegranates [07416]; neither is there any water [04325] to drink [08354].
⁶ And Moses [04872] and Aaron [0175] went [0935] from the presence [06440] of the assembly [06951] unto the door [06607] of the tabernacle [0168] of the congregation [04150], and they fell [05307] upon their faces [06440]: and the glory [03519] of the LORD [03068] appeared [07200] unto them.
⁷ And the LORD [03068] spake [01696] unto Moses [04872], saying [0559],
⁸ Take [03947] the rod [04294], and gather [06950] thou the assembly [05712] together, thou, and Aaron [0175] thy brother [0251], and speak [01696] ye unto the rock [05553] before their eyes [05869]; and it shall give forth [05414] his water [04325], and thou shalt bring forth [03318] to them water [04325] out of the rock [05553]: so thou shalt give [08248] the congregation [05712] and their beasts [01165] drink [08248].
⁹ And Moses [04872] took [03947] the rod [04294] from before [06440] the LORD [03068], as he commanded [06680] him.
¹⁰ And Moses [04872] and Aaron [0175] gathered [06950] the congregation [06951] together before [06440] the rock [05553], and he said [0559] unto them, Hear [08085] now, ye rebels [04784]; must we fetch [03318] you water [04325] out of this rock [05553]?
¹¹ And Moses [04872] lifted up [07311] his hand [03027], and with his rod [04294] he smote [05221] the rock [05553] twice [06471]: and the water [04325] came out [03318] abundantly [07227], and the congregation [05712] drank [08354], and their beasts [01165] also.
¹² And the LORD [03068] spake [0559] unto Moses [04872] and Aaron [0175], Because ye believed [0539] me not, to sanctify [06942] me in the eyes [05869] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478], therefore ye shall not bring [0935] this congregation [06951] into the land [0776] which I have given [05414] them.
¹³ This is [01992] the water [04325] of Meribah [04809]; because the children [01121] of Israel [03478] strove [07378] with the LORD [03068], and he was sanctified [06942] in them.

¹ And all the congregation [05712] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478] journeyed [05265] from the wilderness [04057] of Sin [05512], after their journeys [04550], according to the commandment [06310] of the LORD [03068], and pitched [02583] in Rephidim [07508]: and there was no water [04325] for the people [05971] to drink [08354].
² Wherefore the people [05971] did chide [07378] with Moses [04872], and said [0559], Give [05414] us water [04325] that we may drink [08354]. And Moses [04872] said [0559] unto them, Why chide [07378] ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt [05254] the LORD [03068]?
³ And the people [05971] thirsted [06770] there for water [04325]; and the people [05971] murmured [03885] against Moses [04872], and said [0559], Wherefore is this that thou hast brought [05927] us up out of Egypt [04714], to kill [04191] us and our children [01121] and our cattle [04735] with thirst [06772]?
⁴ And Moses [04872] cried [06817] unto the LORD [03068], saying [0559], What shall I do [06213] unto this people [05971]? they be almost [04592] ready to stone [05619] me.
⁵ And the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto Moses [04872], Go on [05674] before [06440] the people [05971], and take [03947] with thee of the elders [02205] of Israel [03478]; and thy rod [04294], wherewith thou smotest [05221] the river [02975], take [03947] in thine hand [03027], and go [01980].
⁶ Behold, I will stand [05975] before [06440] thee there upon the rock [06697] in Horeb [02722]; and thou shalt smite [05221] the rock [06697], and there shall come [03318] water [04325] out of it, that the people [05971] may drink [08354]. And Moses [04872] did [06213] so in the sight [05869] of the elders [02205] of Israel [03478].
⁷ And he called [07121] the name [08034] of the place [04725] Massah [04532], and Meribah [04809], because of the chiding [07379] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478], and because they tempted [05254] the LORD [03068], saying [0559], Is [03426] the LORD [03068] among [07130] us, or not?

⁸ Hear [08085], O my people [05971], and I will testify [05749] unto thee: O Israel [03478], if thou wilt hearken [08085] unto me;

¹¹ If thou forbear [02820] to deliver [05337] them that are drawn [03947] unto death [04194], and those that are ready [04131] to be slain [02027];

¹⁹ Surely thou wilt slay [06991] the wicked [07563], O God [0433]: depart [05493] from me therefore, ye bloody [01818] men [0582].

⁹ There shall no strange [02114] god [0410] be in thee; neither shalt thou worship [07812] any strange [05236] god [0410].

⁷ For he is our God [0430]; and we are the people [05971] of his pasture [04830], and the sheep [06629] of his hand [03027]. To day [03117] if ye will hear [08085] his voice [06963],

⁷ Again [3825], he limiteth [3724] a certain [5100] day [2250], saying [3004] in [1722] David [1138], To day [4594], after [3326] so long [5118] a time [5550]; as [2531] it is said [2046], To day [4594] if [1437] ye will hear [191] his [846] voice [5456], harden [4645] not [3361] your [5216] hearts [2588].

⁷ For he is our God [0430]; and we are the people [05971] of his pasture [04830], and the sheep [06629] of his hand [03027]. To day [03117] if ye will hear [08085] his voice [06963],

⁷ And he called [07121] the name [08034] of the place [04725] Massah [04532], and Meribah [04809], because of the chiding [07379] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478], and because they tempted [05254] the LORD [03068], saying [0559], Is [03426] the LORD [03068] among [07130] us, or not?