Psalms 95:10
8 do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
11 So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
- KJV
- 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:
- WEB
- Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “They are a people who err in their heart. They have not known my ways.”
- ASV
- Forty years long was I grieved with [that] generation, And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, And they have not known my ways:
- DARBY
- Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways;
- BLB
- Forty years I was repulsed by [that] generation, and I said, “They [are] a people going astray [in] heart, and they have not known My ways.”
- ÅB
- Førti år vemmedes jeg ved den slekt, og jeg sa: De er et folk med forvillet hjerte, og de kjenner ikke mine veier.
- OTB
- I førti år var Jeg harm på den generasjonen,
Og sa de er et folk som farer vill i sitt hjerte,
Og de har ikke forstått Mine veier. - B1930
- Firti år vemmedes jeg ved den slekt, og jeg sa: De er et folk med forvillet hjerte, og de kjenner ikke mine veier.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Read in contextHebrews 3:9–10
where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
Read in contextProverbs 1:22–29
“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
Read in contextIsaiah 63:17
Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.
Read in contextActs 13:18
He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 2:14–16
The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
Read in contextActs 7:36
He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
Read in contextProverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
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