Psalms 95:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

To-day if ye will hear his voice— The people having said, We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand, God is introduced, saying, "Since then you are so, from this day be not like your fathers; behave like my sheep, and harden not your hearts." It is plain, therefore, that the voice of God must begin here; accordingly, this sentence should begin the 8th verse, and be rendered thus: From this day, if you will hear my voice, harden not your heart as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness; Psalms 95:9. When your fathers put me to the proof, tried me, even at the same time that they saw my glorious doing. Mudge. We would just observe, that the word rendered pasture, in the original, signifies also dominion. According to this sense of the word, the other phrase, sheep of his hand, will here be a more fit, though figurative expression: the shepherd who rules the sheep, doing it with his hand, which manages the rod and staff by which they are ruled. See Psalms 23:4.