[a]Harden not your heart, as in [b]Meribah, and as in the day of [c]Massah in the wilderness,

When your fathers (A)tempted me, proved me, though they had seen my work.

10 Forty years have I contended with this generation, and said, They are a people that [d]err in heart, for they have not known my ways.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 95:8 By the contemning of God’s word.
  2. Psalm 95:8 Or, in strife: whereof the place was so called.
  3. Psalm 95:8 Or, tentation, read Exod. 17:7.
  4. Psalm 95:10 They were without judgment and reason.

“Do not harden your hearts(A) as you did at Meribah,[a](B)
    as you did that day at Massah[b] in the wilderness,(C)
where your ancestors tested(D) me;
    they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
10 For forty years(E) I was angry with that generation;
    I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,(F)
    and they have not known my ways.’(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 95:8 Meribah means quarreling.
  2. Psalm 95:8 Massah means testing.