Psalms 95:4
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In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him.
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Jahve is called the Rock of our salvation (as in Psa 89:27, cf. Psa 94:22) as being its firm and sure ground. Visiting the house of God, one comes before God's face; קדּם פּני, praeoccupare faciem, is equivalent to visere (visitare). תּודה is not confessio peccati, but laudis. The Beth before תודה is the Beth of accompaniment, as in Mic 6:6; that before זמרות (according to Sa2 23:1 a name for psalms, whilst מזמר can only be used as a technical expression) is the Beth of the medium.
Open source ↗For the expounding of this psalm we may borrow a great deal of light from the apostle's discourse, Heb. 3 and 4, 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 (Heb 4:7) that the day here spoken of (Psa 95:7) is to be understood of the gospel day, in which God speaks to us by his Son in a voice which we are concerned to hear, and proposes to us a rest besides that of Canaan. In singing psalms it is intended, I. That we should "make melody unto the Lord;" this we are here excited to do, and assisted in doing, being called upon to praise God (Psa 95:1, Psa 95:2) as a great God (Psa 95:3-5) and as our gracious benefactor (Psa 95:6, Psa 95:7). II. That we should teach and admonish ourselves and one another; and we are here taught and warned to hear God's voice (Psa 95:7), and not to harden our hearts, as the Israelites in the wilderness did (Psa 95:8, Psa 95:9), lest we fall under God's wrath and fall short of his rest, as they did (Psa 95:10, Psa 95:11). This psalm must be sung with a holy reverence of God's majesty and a dread of his justice, with a desire to please him and a fear to offend him.
Open source ↗95:4-5 The whole created order owes its existence to the sovereign Lord alone—not to various gods.
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The LORD does all that pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all their depths.
The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.
He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers.
He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.
The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.
The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
You formed the mountains by Your power, having girded Yourself with might.
You have granted his heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah