Psalms 95:7-11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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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,

-Warning against hardening the heart, and so forfeiting the Lord's promised rest, like the unbelieving Israelities in the wilderness.

Verse 7 For he is our God. The "For" introduces the agreement justifying the preceding assertion that "the shall enter into my rest;' a formula of swearing an emphatic negative. The very formula used in Numbers 14:23, margin; Ps. 95:30; Deuteronomy 1:35, "my rest" is "the rest and the inheritance (in Canaan) which the Lord their God gave" (Deuteronomy 12:9).

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Psalms 95:7-11

7 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,

8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation,c and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.