Psalms 95:11
9 where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
10 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.”
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
- So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
- KJV
- Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
- WEB
- Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”
- ASV
- Wherefore I sware in my wrath, That they should not enter into my rest. Psalm 96
- DARBY
- So that I swore in mine anger, that they should not enter into my rest.
- BLB
- So I swore in My anger, “They shall not come into My rest!”
- ÅB
- Så svor jeg i min vrede: Sannelig, de skal ikke komme inn til min hvile.
- OTB
- Derfor erklærte Jeg i Min vrede,
De skal sannelig ikke komme inn til Min hvile. - B1930
- Så svor jeg i min vrede: Sannelig, de skal ikke komme inn til min hvile.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hebrews 4:3
Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.
Read in contextNumbers 14:23
not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.
Read in contextHebrews 4:5
And again, as He says in the passage above: “They shall never enter My rest.”
Read in contextHebrews 3:11
So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”
Read in contextHebrews 3:18
And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
Read in contextJeremiah 6:16
This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
Read in contextMatthew 11:28–29
Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 1:34–35
When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,
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