Psalms 95:8
6 O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
7 For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
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.
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.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
- KJV
- Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
- WEB
- Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
- ASV
- Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness;
- DARBY
- Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as [in] the day of Massah, in the wilderness;
- BLB
- You⁺ shall not harden your⁺ hearts, as [at] Meribah, as [in] the day at Massah in the wilderness,
- ÅB
- Forherd ikke deres hjerte, slik som ved Meriba, slik som på Massadagen i ørkenen,
- OTB
- Forherd ikke deres hjerter som ved Meriba,
Som på dagen ved Massa i ørkenen, - B1930
- Forherd ikke eders hjerte, likesom ved Meriba, likesom på Massadagen i ørkenen,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 17:7
He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
Read in contextHebrews 3:8–9
do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,
Read in contextNumbers 20:13
These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD, and He showed His holiness among them.
Read in contextNumbers 14:11
And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
Read in contextNumbers 14:22
not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
Read in contextHebrews 3:15–19
As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”
Read in contextDeuteronomy 6:16
Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.
Read in context1 Samuel 6:6
Why harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened theirs? When He afflicted them, did they not send the people on their way as they departed?
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