O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. Here to the utterance of the voice, and the hastening with the feet into God's presence (Psalms 95:1-2), there is added the bending of the knee. This attitude is only introduced as the natural and instinctive expression of the loving reverence of the "heart" (Psalms 95:8). The bowed person and the bended knee are the token of humility, unreserved surrender, and self-dedicating obedience. Yahweh is termed by Israel "our Maker," as being the Creator alike of the individuals of the people as men, as also of the people as a nation. Deuteronomy 32:6 is the original passage - "Is not He thy Father ... hath He not made thee, and established thee?" (cf. Isaiah 44:1-2).