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?
Read in contextHebrews 3:9–10
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Read in contextProverbs 1:22–29
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Read in contextIsaiah 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.
Read in contextActs 13:18
And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 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.
Read in contextActs 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.
Read in contextProverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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