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King James Version

Psalms 95:7

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,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God Continued...;   Praise;   Prophecy;   Quotations and Allusions;   Repentance;   Thompson Chain Reference - Accepted Time;   Salvation;   Time;   To-Day, Accepted Time;   The Topic Concordance - God;   Shepherds/pastors;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Procrastination;   Repentance;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Inspiration;   Thanksgiving;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Colossians, Theology of;   Flock;   Hebrews, Theology of;   King, Christ as;   Time;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Holy Ghost;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Provocation;   Sheep;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Agriculture;   Commandment;   Rufus;   Sheep, Shepherd;   Shepherd;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Worship;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Israel;   Sheep;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Inspiration;   Psalms, Book of;   Sheep;   Text of the Old Testament;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Joshua B. Levi;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
For He is our God,And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.Today, if you hear His voice,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. Today, if you would hear His voice,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For he is our Lorde: and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheepe of his hande.
Darby Translation
For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. To-day if ye hear his voice,
New King James Version
For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice:
Literal Translation
For He is our God; and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice,
Easy-to-Read Version
He is our God, and we are the people he cares for, his sheep that walk by his side. Listen to his voice today:
World English Bible
For he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
King James Version (1611)
For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheepe of his hand: to day if yee will heare his voyce,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For he is oure God: as for vs, we are the people of his pasture, and the shepe of his hodes.
Amplified Bible
For He is our God And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice,
American Standard Version
For he is our God, And we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To-day, oh that ye would hear his voice!
Bible in Basic English
For he is our God; and we are the people to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to his voice!
Update Bible Version
For he is our God, And we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
Webster's Bible Translation
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,
New English Translation
For he is our God; we are the people of his pasture, the sheep he owns. Today, if only you would obey him!
Contemporary English Version
The Lord is our God, and we are his people, the sheep he takes care of in his own pasture. Listen to God's voice today!
Complete Jewish Bible
For he is our God, and we are the people in his pasture, the sheep in his care. If only today you would listen to his voice:
Geneva Bible (1587)
For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheepe of his hande: to day, if ye will heare his voyce,
George Lamsa Translation
For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. Today if you will hear his voice,
Hebrew Names Version
For he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the flock of His hand.
New Living Translation
for he is our God. We are the people he watches over, the flock under his care. If only you would listen to his voice today!
New Life Bible
For He is our God. And we are the people of His field, and the sheep of His hand. If you hear His voice today,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
English Revised Version
For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, Oh that ye would hear his voice!
Berean Standard Bible
For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
New Revised Standard
For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. O that today you would listen to his voice!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, he, is our God, And, we, are the people of his pasture, and the flock of his hand? To-day, if, to his voice, ye will hearken,
Douay-Rheims Bible
(94-7) For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.
Lexham English Bible
For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. Today if you will hear his voice:
English Standard Version
For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice,
New American Standard Bible
For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice,
New Century Version
because he is our God and we are the people he takes care of, the sheep that he tends. Today listen to what he says:
Good News Translation
He is our God; we are the people he cares for, the flock for which he provides. Listen today to what he says:
Christian Standard Bible®
For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
for he is oure Lord God. And we ben the puple of his lesewe; and the scheep of his hond.
Young's Literal Translation
For He [is] our God, and we the people of His pasture, And the flock of His hand, To-day, if to His voice ye hearken,
Revised Standard Version
For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. O that today you would hearken to his voice!

Contextual Overview

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, 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For he: Psalms 48:14, Psalms 67:6, Psalms 115:3, Exodus 15:2, Exodus 20:2, Jeremiah 31:33, Hebrews 11:16

people: Psalms 23:1, Psalms 79:13, Psalms 80:1, Psalms 100:3, Isaiah 40:10, Isaiah 40:11, Ezekiel 34:30, Ezekiel 34:31, John 10:3, John 10:4, John 10:14-16, Acts 20:28, 1 Peter 2:25

To day: Hebrews 3:7, Hebrews 3:13, Hebrews 3:15, Hebrews 4:7

if ye: Proverbs 8:6, Isaiah 55:3, Matthew 3:2, Matthew 3:3, Matthew 17:5, Revelation 3:20

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 9:29 - Yet they 1 Chronicles 16:14 - the Lord 2 Chronicles 24:19 - but they would Psalms 74:1 - the sheep Psalms 78:52 - like a Psalms 105:7 - the Lord Psalms 106:25 - hearkened Psalms 119:60 - made Proverbs 27:1 - Boast Isaiah 43:7 - for I Isaiah 55:6 - Seek Ezekiel 33:5 - heard Micah 7:14 - Feed Zephaniah 2:2 - before the day of Matthew 25:33 - the sheep Luke 19:42 - in this John 10:7 - the sheep John 10:9 - and shall John 21:16 - my sheep

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For he is our God,.... God over all, blessed for ever, truly and properly God, and therefore to be worshipped: "our God"; in whom we have interest, who became our head and surety in covenant; took upon him our nature, is our "Immanuel", God with as, which increases the obligation to worship him; these are the words of New Testament saints:

and we are the people of his pasture; for whom he has provided a good pasture; whom he leads into it, and feeds in it, even by the ministry of the word and ordinances:

and the sheep of his hand; made and fashioned by his hand, both in a natural and spiritual sense; led and guided by his hand, as a flock by the hand of the shepherd; are in his hand, being put there for safety by his Father; and upheld by it, and preserved in it, and from whence none can pluck them; see Deuteronomy 33:3 receiving such favours from him, he ought to be worshipped by them. The Heathens had a deity they called Pan, whom they make to be a keeper of sheep e; and some Christian writers have thought that Christ the chief Shepherd is meant; since, when the Heathen oracles ceased, after the coming and death of Christ, a voice is f said to be heard at a certain place, "the great Pan is dead: today, if ye will hear his voice"; the voice of the Shepherd, the voice of God, says Aben Ezra, his Word, as the Targum; the voice of the Messiah, both his perceptive voice, his commands and ordinances, which ought to be hearkened to and obeyed; and the voice of his Gospel, and the doctrines of it; which is to be heard not only externally, but internally: when it is heard as to be understood, to be approved of and believed, and to be distinguished; so as to have a spiritual and experimental knowledge of it; to feel the power and efficacy of it, and practically attend to it; it is an evidence of being the sheep of Christ; see John 10:4, where the sheep are said to know the voice of the shepherd, and not that of a stranger; of which Polybius g gives a remarkable instance in the goats of the island of Cyrnon, who will flee from strangers, but, as soon as the keeper sounds his trumpet, they will run to him: though the words may be connected with what follows, as they are in Hebrews 3:7, where they are said to be the words of the Holy Ghost, and are applied to times, and are interpreted of the voice of the Son of God in his house; for though it may refer to some certain day in David's time, as the seventh day sabbath, in which the voice of God might be heard, the word of God read and explained; and in Gospel times, as the Lord's day, in which Christ speaks by his ministers; and to the whole time of a man's life, which is called "while it is today", Hebrews 3:13, yet it chiefly respects the whole day of the Gospel, the whole Gospel dispensation, 2 Corinthians 6:2.

e "Pan ovium custos----" Virgil. Georgic. l. 1. v. 17. "Pana deum pecoris veteres coluisse feruntur", Ovid. Fasti, l. 2. f Plutarch. de orac. defect. p. 419. g Hist. l. 12. in principio.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For he is our God - Not only the God whom we worship as the true God, but One who has revealed himself to us as our God. We worship him as God - as entitled to praise and adoration because he is the true God; we worship him also as sustaining the relation of God to us, or because we recognize him as our God, and because he has manifested himself as ours.

And we are the people of his pasture - whom he has recognized as his flock; to whom he sustains the relation of shepherd; who feeds and protects us as the shepherd does his flock. See the notes at Psalms 79:13; compare Psalms 23:1-3.

And the sheep of his hand - The flock that is guided and fed by his hand.

To day if ye will hear his voice - His voice calling you; commanding you; inviting you; encouraging you. See this passage explained in the notes at Hebrews 3:7-11. The word “today” here means “the present time;” now. The idea is, that the purpose to obey should not be deferred until tomorrow; should not be put off to the future. The commands of God should be obeyed at once; the purpose should be executed immediately. All God’s commands relate to the present. He gives us none for the future; and a true purpose to obey God exists only where there is a willingness to obey “now,” “today;” and can exist only then. A purpose to repent at some future time, to give up the world at some future time, to embrace the Gospel at some future time, is “no obedience,” for there is no such command addressed to us. A resolution to put off repentance and faith, to defer attention to religion until some future time, is real disobedience - and often the worst form of disobedience - for it is directly in the face of the command of God. “If ye will hear.” That is, If there is a disposition or willingness to obey his voice at all; or, to listen to his commands. See the notes at Hebrews 3:7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 95:7. For he is our God — Here is the reason for this service. He has condescended to enter into a covenant with us, and he has taken us for his own; therefore -

We are the people of his pasture — Or, rather, as the Chaldee, Syriac, Vulgate, and AEthiopic read, "We are his people, and the sheep of the pasture of his hand." We are his own; he feeds and governs us, and his powerful hand protects us.

To-day if ye will hear his voiceTo-day-you have no time to lose; to-morrow may be too late. God calls to-day; to-morrow he may be silent. This should commence the eighth verse, as it begins what is supposed to be the part of the priest or prophet who now exhorts the people; as if he had said: Seeing you are in so good a spirit, do not forget your own resolutions, and harden not your hearts, "as your fathers did in Meribah and Massah, in the wilderness;" the same fact and the same names as are mentioned Exodus 17:7; when the people murmured at Rephidim, because they had no water; hence it was called Meribah, contention or provocation, and Massah, temptation.


 
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