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Psalms 95:10
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.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses the assembly of Israel, recalling the wilderness generation that repeatedly tested Him despite witnessing His works.
The words — The Hebrew אָקֹט ('a.kot) and תּוֹעֵי לֵבָב (to.'ei le.vav) denote God’s loathing and the people’s wandering hearts.
The thread — The forty-year judgment and heart-straying appear in Hebrews 3:10 and Hebrews 3:17, while the warning against testing God echoes in Hebrews 3:9.
Why it lands — The text states that persistent rebellion and unbelief cause God to withhold His rest, requiring immediate submission to His revealed ways.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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:
Cross-references
- Hebrews 3:17 And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- Hebrews 3:9 where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
- Proverbs 1:22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
- Isaiah 63:17 Why, 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 13:18 He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.
- Numbers 32:13 The 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 The 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.
- Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
- Jeremiah 9:6 You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.
- Acts 7:36 He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.