For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice:
Parallel translations
- WEB for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
- KJV 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,
- BSB For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
- NASB For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice,
- NLT for he is our God. We are the people he watches over, the flock under his care. If only you would listen to his voice today!
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Quick answer
He is our God and we are the sheep of His pasture; today, hear His voice. Belonging to God as His flock calls for immediate, attentive obedience.
Overview
The intimate image of God as shepherd and His people as sheep grounds the call to worship in covenant relationship. The urgent 'today' introduces a warning against unbelief that the rest of the psalm develops. Hebrews applies this 'today' to the gospel age, urging us to heed Christ the Good Shepherd's voice without delay (Hebrews 3:7-15; John 10:27).
Cross-references & the web
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- Heb 4:7he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”
- Heb 3:15while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”
- Rev 3:20Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.
- Heb 3:7–11Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,
- Ps 48:14For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.
- John 10:14–16I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;
- 1 Pet 2:25For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
- Ps 74:1A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
- Acts 20:28Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
- Ezek 34:30–31They shall know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ps 23:1A Psalm by David. Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.
- Ps 79:13So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.
- Exod 15:2Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
- Ps 100:3Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
- Isa 40:10–11Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
- Heb 3:13but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
- Ps 115:3But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.
- Matt 17:5While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”
- Matt 3:2–3“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”
- Heb 11:16But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
- John 10:3–4The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
- Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
- Exod 20:2“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Isa 55:3Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- Ps 67:6The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.
- Prov 8:6Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.
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