12/27/11: Psalm 95

Psalm 95
The psalmist invites his audience to worship the Lord. He then reminds them of Israel's stubbornness and tells them to obey.

Verse	Observation	Interpretation	Application
1Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. 2Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. 3For the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods. 4In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him. 5The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. 6Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker; 7for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care.	The psalmist invites his audience to extol the Lord with music and song and to come before him with thanksgiving. He then states the the Lord is "the Rock of our salvation", "great God,", "great King above all gods." He states that the Lord created the depths of the earth, the mountains, the sea, and the dry land (He is the Maker). Then he states that Israel is the flock under God's care.	The Lord created the earth and everything that is in it. We can worship the Lord through music and song.
Today, if you hear his voice, 8do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,a as you did that day at Massahb in the desert, 9where your fathers tested and tried me, though they had seen what I did. 10For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.” 11So I declared on oath in my anger, “They shall never enter my rest.”	He then reminds them of Israel's stubbornness and tells them to obey. He refers to the waters of Meribah, where Moses strikes a rock to provide water, disobeying God's command to talk to it. Massah is also the same as Meribah.

Feel free to correct me if there is anything wrong in my understanding of the Bible. I am not a Bible scholar or anything, I'm just studying the Word of God.