1.

O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

2.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

3.

For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
God's — Above all that are called God's angels, earthly potentates, and especially the false gods of the Heathen.

4.

In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.

In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
Hand — Under his government.
Strength — The strongest or highest mountains.

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.

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,

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,
Pasture — Whom he feeds and keeps in his own pasture, or in the land which he hath appropriated to himself.
The sheep — Which are under his special care.
Today — Forthwith or presently.

8.

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Harden not — By obstinate unbelief.
Provocation — In that bold and wicked contest with God in the wilderness.
Temptation — In the day in which you tempted me.

9.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
Works — Both of mercy, and of justice.

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:

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:
Do err — Their hearts are insincere and bent to backsliding.
Not known — After all my teaching and discoveries of myself to them; they did not know, nor consider, those great things which I had wrought for them.

11.

Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
My rest — Into the promised land, which is called the rest, Deuteronomy 12:9.