Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Psalms 95:3 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 3. 3For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
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Quick Meaning
Psalm 95:3: The reason or consequence in “For the LORD is a great God, and a great King…” supports the surrounding claim in “Come worship; today, do not harden the heart: Come sing, bow, and hear today.”
The congregation is called to sing, then to kneel before the maker
This verse is one part of that explanation in Psalms 95:1–7. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- Psalms 95:1–7
- Psalms 95:1–11
Read Psalms 95:3 with 95:1–7 and 95:1–11. Read alone, “For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above…” could lose the communal voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 95:1–7, the communal voice carries the movement “Come sing, bow, and hear today” as part of “Come worship; today, do not harden the heart.” Its festival-liturgy form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Psalms 95:1–7 opens Psalm 95 with “O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of…” and establishes the communal voice and “Come sing, bow, and hear today” movement before later lines develop or answer it. Within that relationship, Psalm 95:3 supplies a reason or consequence through “For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods” and must be read with the claim it supports.
What Remains True
The lasting force of “For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above…” comes through Psalms 95:1–7 and Book IV, not isolation. Human rule is answerable to the LORD and is measured by justice, especially protection of poor and vulnerable people, rather than by power or sacred slogans. The local movement is “Come sing, bow, and hear today.” The unit's reviewed limit is: The wilderness warning addresses a worshiping community; Hebrews' reuse is Christian reception and must not become anti-Jewish contempt or coercion.
How It Can Shape Life
- Start with the line's work inside “Come worship; today, do not harden the heart: Come sing, bow, and hear today”—Psalm 95:3 supplies a reason or consequence through “For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods” and must be read with the claim it supports. Then let “For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above…” question concentrated power: examine whether actual policies protect poor people and restrain violence rather than baptizing authority.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Psalms 95:1–7 — Come worship; today, do not harden the heart: Come sing, bow, and hear todaySources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Psalms 95:1–7, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Psalms
Open Scriptures
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Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ps.xml, OSIS 95:1–7
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NET Bible Notes: Psalms 1-150
Biblical Studies Press
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Supports: Verse-level controls for poetic syntax, imagery, older KJV language, textual issues, headings, and alternatives in Psalms 95:1–7.
Exact location: Official NET Bible Psalm 95 HTML, translator, textual, and study notes attached to Psalms 95:1–7
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