Psalm 95
Introduction
Verses 1–7
The psalmist here, as often elsewhere, stirs up himself and others to praise God; for it is a duty which ought to be performed with the most lively affections, and which we have great need to be excited to, being very often backward to it and cold in it. Observe, I. How God is to be praised. 1.
Verses 7–11
Warning against Hardness of Heart. 7—To day if ye will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
For the expounding of this psalm we may borrow a great deal of light from the apostle’s discourse, Heb. 3:1—4:16, 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 that the day here spoken of is to be…