Do Not Harden Your Hearts
Psalms 95:8
In 11 translations
- BSB
- do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,LXX as you did in the rebellion; Meribah means quarreling; see Exodus 17:7; cited in Hebrews 3:15 and Hebrews 4:7.LXX in the day of testing in the wilderness; Massah means testing; see Exodus 17:7.
- KJV
- Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:provocation: Heb. contention
- 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;
- LSV
- Do not harden your heart as [in] Meribah, || As [in] the day of Massah in the wilderness,
- YLT
- Harden not your heart as [in] Meribah, As [in] the day of Massah in the wilderness,
- DBY
- Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as [in] the day of Massah, in the wilderness;
- DRC94:8
- Today if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts:
- GNV
- Harden not your heart, as in Meribah, and as in the day of Massah in the wildernesse.
- JPS
- 'Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness;
- LXXE94:8
- To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of irritation in the wilderness:Note, πειρασμοῦ is the reading of several editions.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אַל־תַּקְשׁ֣וּ לְ֭בַבְכֶם כִּמְרִיבָ֑ה כְּי֥וֹם מַ֝סָּ֗ה בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃
- LXX-Br94:8
- σήμερον ἐὰν τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ ἀκούσητε, μὴ σκληρύνητε τὰς καρδίας ὑμῶν, ὡς ἐν τῷ παραπικρασμῷ, κατὰ τὴν ἡμέραν τοῦ πικρασμοῦ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ,
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
MassahRepentanceMassah and MeribahObduracy (Hardness)ProcrastinationHeartProvocation; ProvokeSelf-Will and StubbornnessHeart, TheImpenitence
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Exodus 17:7He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
- Hebrews 3:8–9do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
- Numbers 20:13These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD, and He showed His holiness among them.
- Numbers 14:11And 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?
- Hebrews 3:15–19As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.” For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? And with whom…
- Numbers 14:22not 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—
- Deuteronomy 6:16Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.
- 1 Samuel 6:6Why 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?
- Hebrews 12:25See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?
- Romans 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
- Jude 1:5Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.
- Exodus 17:2So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”
- Hebrews 3:13But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
- Acts 19:9But when some of them stubbornly refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way, Paul took his disciples and left the synagogue to conduct daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
- Deuteronomy 1:34–35When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying, “Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,
- Numbers 14:27“How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 94:8 in some Bibles
- 95:8 in most Bibles