Verse 3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods. God’s — Above all that are called God’s angels, earthly potentates, and especially the false gods of the Heathen.
Verse 4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. Hand — Under his government. Strength — The strongest or highest mountains.
Verse 7 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, Pasture — Whom he feeds and keeps in his own pasture, or in the land which he hath appropriated to himself. The sheep — Which are under his special care. Today — Forthwith or presently.
Verse 8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: Harden not — By obstinate unbelief. Provocation — In that bold and wicked contest with God in the wilderness. Temptation — In the day in which you tempted me.
Verse 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. Works — Both of mercy, and of justice.
Verse 10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: Do err — Their hearts are insincere and bent to backsliding. Not known — After all my teaching and discoveries of myself to them; they did not know, nor consider, those great things which I had wrought for them.
Verse 11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. My rest — Into the promised land, which is called the rest, Deuteronomy 12:9 .