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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 95 This psalm, though without a title, was written by David, as appears from Hebrews 4:7, and to him the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions ascribe it. It belongs to the times of the Messiah, as Kimchi observes; the apostle applies it to the Jews of his time, and bespeaks them in the language of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O come, let us sing unto the Lord,.... To Jehovah the Messiah, the Lord our righteousness; setting forth, in songs of praise, the glory of his person, the riches of his grace, and our thankfulness to him for spiritual mercies by him: Christ is to be the subject of our spiritual songs, and is the person to whose honour and glory they should be...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
For the expounding of this psalm we may borrow a great deal of light from the apostle's discourse, Heb. iii. and iv., where it appears both to have been penned by David and to have been calculated for the days of the Messiah; for it is there said expressly (Heb. iv. 7) that the day here spoken of (ver. 7) is to be understood of the gospel day, in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. The worship of God should always be joyful, hence there is to be much singing in it. God is not like Baal, who can be worshipped with crying and lamentation, and the cutting of the flesh with knives. We who believe in him regard him not as the destroyer or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. There must be, there should be, joy in our worship, it is the very juice, the wine that floweth from the trodden grape. It is the cream of the soul when the...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. O come, let us sing unto the LORD. Other nations sing unto their gods, let us sing unto Jehovah. We love him, we admire him, we reverence him, let us express our feelings with the choicest sounds, using our noblest faculty for its noblest end. It is well thus to urge others to magnify the Lord, but we must be careful to set a worthy...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving,.... Come with the sacrifice of praise, there being no other in the days of the Messiah, all ceremonial sacrifices being put an end to when his sacrifice was offered up; so Arama observes, that the offering of thanksgiving shall remain, or be left in the days of the Messiah; come with this to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, Let us not be afraid to stand in the immediate presence of God; on the other hand, let us not worship him with lightness and frivolity, but let us come before his presence with due reverence and solemnity; and when we come, let it be “with thanksgiving.” I need not remind you what innumerable...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods. There are no other gods that are worthy to bear that name, but Jehovah is the great King above all that are called gods.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the Lord is a great God,.... Christ is truly and properly God, wherefore divine service is to be performed unto him; particularly singing psalms, setting forth therein his greatness and glory: and he is a great one; great in power, wisdom, justice, truth, mercy, and grace; greatness is to be ascribed unto him, and worship given him, because of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the LORD is a great God, and a great king above all gods. “For the Lord is a great God.” Jehovah is a great God, “and a great King above all gods,” above all that are ever called gods, whether they be kings or magistrates, or whatever they may be.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In his hand are the deep places of the earth,.... The "penetrals" (c) of it; not only what are penetrated by men, the minerals that are in it; but what are of such deep recess as to be penetrated only by the Lord himself; these are in the hands and power of Christ, which he can search into, discover, and dispose of; these are the foundations of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In his hand are the deep places of the earth: The innermost caverns, the deepest mines of earth, and the far-down places in the depths of the ocean, these are all in God’s hand. Psa_95:4. The strength of the hills is his also. He is the God of the hills as well as the God of the valleys. Let us read this verse again. “In his hand are the deep...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In his hand are the deep place of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. Low and high, mysterious, sublime, the dominion of God encompasseth all nature.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The sea is his, and he made it,.... He made it, and therefore it is, and all creatures in it; he sets bounds to it, and its waves, and restrains the raging of it at his pleasure, Matthew 8:26, and his hands formed the dry land; the whole world, all besides the sea, the vast continent; he is the Maker of it, and all creatures in it; without him was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sea is his, and he made it: Men cannot parcel it out into estates, or cut it up into allotments, as they do with the solid earth; but “the sea is his;” there God reigns alone, and surveys the broad acres of the wild waste of waters as his own. Psa_95:5. And his hands formed the dry land. As though it were so much plastic clay, out of which he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. Creation is the best ground for possession: what he made is his own, the great freeholder, the sovereign lord of all.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O come, let us worship and bow down,.... Before him who is the Rock of our salvation, the great God and great King, the Creator of the ends of the earth, the proper object of all religious worship and adoration: Christ is to be worshipped with every part of external worship under the New Testament dispensation; psalms and songs of praise are to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker. For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Blessed are we if we can say this in very truth, we are highly privileged to have this God to be our God, and to be ourselves his purchased inheritance, the objects of his daily care: “the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker. For he is our God; “For he is our God.” Oh, that is the sweetest of it all, — “he is our God.” Let lords and lands have what masters they will, let us obey and worship our own God still.