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.

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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?

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  • Hebrews 3:9–10

    where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.

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  • Proverbs 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?

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  • Isaiah 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.

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  • Acts 13:18

    He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.

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  • Deuteronomy 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.

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  • Acts 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.

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  • Proverbs 1:7

    The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

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