Psalms 95:11
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
10 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:
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
- 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
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Read in contextNumbers 14:23
Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
Read in contextHebrews 4:5
And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
Read in contextHebrews 3:11
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
Read in contextHebrews 3:18
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
Read in contextJeremiah 6:16
Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
Read in contextMatthew 11:28–29
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 1:34–35
And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
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