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Wooliee
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Username: Wooliee
Post Number: 23
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Friday, July 15, 2005 - 9:07 pm: |     |
Is there any Bible translation that mentions the sabbath is being talked about in Psalm 95? I was having a discussion with someone about Hebrews 4, and he was trying to tell me that TODAY refers to the sabbath, because David was referring to the sabbath in Psalm 95. I have a NKJV, KJV, and a NIV. None of those translations mention the sabbath in Psalm 95. Thank you for your help!
Julie |
Jeremy
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Username: Jeremy
Post Number: 850
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 15, 2005 - 10:27 pm: | |
Julie, I don't think there is anything to suggest that either the writer of Hebrews or Psalm 95 is talking about the Sabbath. The obvious meaning of "Today" is "Today." And the writer of Hebrews makes this absolutely clear in chapters 3 and 4. 
Jeremy
(Message edited by jeremy on July 15, 2005) |
Patriar
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Username: Patriar
Post Number: 111
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, July 16, 2005 - 9:27 pm: | |
Julie:
I would check the 'clear word' book to see if it mentions something to that effect. Otherwise I don't have anything like that in my translations either.
Patria |
Heretic
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Username: Heretic
Post Number: 143
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, July 16, 2005 - 10:35 pm: | |
I can only find that the word Sabbath (Shabbath) appears once in this book and that's found in Psalm 92:1 in "a psalm to be sung on the Sabbath day." Here's what the Barnes Commentary had to say about this verse:
quote:...In the title it is called ìA Psalm or Song for the sabbath-day;î that is, to be used on the sabbath. The Chaldee Paraphrase has in the title, ìPraise and a song which the first man spoke for the sabbath-day.î This may indicate that there was an carly tradition on this subject; but we have no proof of what would be so interesting a fact, that we have a genuine poetic composition of Adam. The contents are all such as might be properly used on the sabbath, though there is nothing in the psalm that has any ìspecialî reference to the sabbath, or that is derived from the appointment of such a day. It is not improbable, however, that special psalms and hymns were composed with a view to be used on festal occasions; and this, as a psalm of praise, is well adapted still to the services of the sabbath.
Psalm 95 is so short here it is:
quote:Psa 95:1 O come, let us sing for joy to the LORD, Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.
Psa 95:2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.
Psa 95:3 For the LORD is a great God And a great King above all gods,
Psa 95:4 In whose hand are the depths of the earth, The peaks of the mountains are His also.
Psa 95:5 The sea is His, for it was He who made it, And His hands formed the dry land.
Psa 95:6 Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
Psa 95:7 For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. Today, if you would hear His voice,
Psa 95:8 Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
Psa 95:9 "When your fathers tested Me, They tried Me, though they had seen My work.
Psa 95:10 "For forty years I loathed that generation, And said they are a people who err in their heart, And they do not know My ways.
Psa 95:11 "Therefore I swore in My anger, Truly they shall not enter into My rest."
How someone could extrapolate that this is somehow speaking of the weekly Sabbath is a mystery.
Heretic
(Message edited by Heretic on July 16, 2005) |
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