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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 it, Hebrews 3:7, and in which time Israelites,...
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 nothing made that is made; and, being the Creator...
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 which God speaks to us by his Son in a voice which...
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 had molded this great globe, and fashioned the...
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.