Psalms 95:10

8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

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:

11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into 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

    But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

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  • Hebrews 3:9–10

    When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

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  • Proverbs 1:22–29

    How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

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  • Isaiah 63:17

    O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

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  • Acts 13:18

    And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

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  • Deuteronomy 2:14–16

    And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.

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  • Acts 7:36

    He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

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  • Proverbs 1:7

    The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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