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Do Not Harden Your Hearts

Psalms 95:10

In 11 translations

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.”LXX They always go astray in the heart
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:
LSV
Forty years I am weary of the generation, || And I say, “A people erring in heart—they! And they have not known My ways”:
YLT
Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, 'A people erring in heart — they! And they have not known My ways:'
DBY
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;
DRC94:10
Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart.
GNV
Fourtie yeeres haue I contended with this generation, and said, They are a people that erre in heart, for they haue not knowen my wayes.
JPS
For forty years was I wearied with that generation, and said: It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known My ways;
LXXE94:10
Forty years was I grieved with this generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known my ways.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
אַרְבָּ֘עִ֤ים שָׁנָ֨ה ׀ אָ֘ק֤וּט בְּד֗וֹר וָאֹמַ֗ר עַ֤ם תֹּעֵ֣י לֵבָ֣ב הֵ֑ם וְ֝הֵ֗ם לֹא־יָדְע֥וּ דְרָכָֽי׃
LXX-Br94:10
Τεσσαράκοντα ἔτη προσώχθισα τῇ γενεᾷ ἐκείνῃ, καὶ εἶπα, ἀεὶ πλανῶνται τῇ καρδίᾳ, καὶ αὐτοὶ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν τὰς ὁδούς μου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Hebrews 3:17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
  • Hebrews 3:9–10where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’
  • Proverbs 1:22–29“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge? If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you;…
  • Isaiah 63:17Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.
  • Acts 13:18He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.
  • Acts 7:36He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
  • Numbers 32:13The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation who had done evil in His sight was gone.
  • Deuteronomy 2:14–16The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.…
  • Jeremiah 9:6You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.
  • Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
  • Numbers 14:33–34Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. In keeping with the forty days you spied out the…
  • Ephesians 4:30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
  • Deuteronomy 1:3In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.
  • Romans 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
  • Genesis 6:6And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
  • John 3:19–21And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for…

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