1.
O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
1. The terms used to express the
highest kind of joy.
rock—a firm basis,
giving certainty of salvation ().
2.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
2. come . . . presence—literally,
"approach," or, meet Him ().
3.
For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
3. above . . . gods—esteemed
such by men, though really nothing (Jeremiah 5:7;
Jeremiah 10:10-15).
4.
In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
4, 5. The terms used describe
the world in its whole extent, subject to God.
5.
The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
6.
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
6. come—or, "enter,"
with solemn forms, as well as hearts.
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,
7. This relation illustrates our
entire dependence (compare Psalms 23:3;
Psalms 74:1). The last clause is
united by Paul (Hebrews 3:7) to the
following (compare Psalms 81:8),
8.
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
8-11. warning against neglect;
and this is sustained by citing the melancholy fate of their
rebellious ancestors, whose provoking insolence is described by
quoting the language of God's complaint () of their conduct at Meribah and Massah,
names given (Exodus 17:7) to
commemorate their strife and contention with Him (Psalms 78:18;
Psalms 78:41).
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:
10. err in their heart—Their
wanderings in the desert were but types of their innate ignorance and
perverseness.
that they should
not—literally, "if they," c., part of the form of
swearing (compare Numbers 14:30
Psalms 89:35).
11.
Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
8-11. warning against neglect;
and this is sustained by citing the melancholy fate of their
rebellious ancestors, whose provoking insolence is described by
quoting the language of God's complaint () of their conduct at Meribah and Massah,
names given (Exodus 17:7) to
commemorate their strife and contention with Him (Psalms 78:18;
Psalms 78:41).