Psalms 95:9
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,
8 do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
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.”
11 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
- where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
- KJV
- When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
- WEB
- when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
- ASV
- When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work.
- DARBY
- When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
- BLB
- when your⁺ fathers tested Me—they tried Me, even though they had seen My work.
- ÅB
- hvor deres fedre fristet meg! De satte meg på prøve, de som dog hadde sett min gjerning.
- OTB
- Da deres fedre satte Meg på prøve,
De prøvde Meg, selv om de hadde sett Mine gjerninger. - B1930
- hvor eders fedre fristet mig! De satte mig på prøve, de som dog hadde sett min gjerning.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Numbers 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 context1 Corinthians 10:9
We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
Read in contextPsalms 78:56
But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
Read in contextPsalms 78:40–41
How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
Read in contextPsalms 78:17–18
But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
Read in contextJohn 15:24
If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.
Read in contextMatthew 11:20–22
Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles had been performed, because they did not repent.
Read in context