Psalm 78:40
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
and grieved him in the desert!(A)
Ephesians 4:30
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption.(A)
Read full chapter
Hebrews 3:15-17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 As it is said,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”(A)
16 Now who were they who heard and rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?(B) 17 And with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?(C)
Read full chapter
Isaiah 63:10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
10 But they rebelled
and grieved his holy spirit;
therefore he became their enemy;
he himself fought against them.(A)
Psalm 95:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,(A)
9 when your ancestors tested me
and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.(B)
10 For forty years I loathed that generation
and said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they do not regard my ways.”(C)
Isaiah 7:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 Then Isaiah[a] said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary mortals that you weary my God also?
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 7.13 Heb he
Psalm 107:11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 for they had rebelled against the words of God
and spurned the counsel of the Most High.(A)
Psalm 106:14-33
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness
and put God to the test in the desert;(A)
15 he gave them what they asked
but sent a wasting disease among them.(B)
16 They were jealous of Moses in the camp
and of Aaron, the holy one of the Lord.(C)
17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan
and covered the faction of Abiram.(D)
18 Fire also broke out in their company;
the flame burned up the wicked.(E)
19 They made a calf at Horeb
and worshiped a cast image.(F)
20 They exchanged the glory of God[a]
for the image of an ox that eats grass.(G)
21 They forgot God, their Savior,
who had done great things in Egypt,(H)
22 wondrous works in the land of Ham,
and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.[b](I)
23 Therefore he said he would destroy them—
had not Moses, his chosen one,
stood in the breach before him,
to turn away his wrath from destroying them.(J)
24 Then they despised the pleasant land,
having no faith in his promise.(K)
25 They grumbled in their tents
and did not obey the voice of the Lord.(L)
26 Therefore he raised his hand and swore to them
that he would make them fall in the wilderness(M)
27 and would disperse[c] their descendants among the nations,
scattering them over the lands.(N)
28 Then they attached themselves to the Baal of Peor
and ate sacrifices offered to the dead;(O)
29 they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds,
and a plague broke out among them.
30 Then Phinehas stood up and interceded,
and the plague was stopped.(P)
31 And that has been reckoned to him as righteousness
from generation to generation forever.(Q)
32 They angered the Lord[d] at the waters of Meribah,
and it went ill with Moses on their account,(R)
33 for they made his spirit bitter,
and he spoke words that were rash.(S)
Psalm 78:17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
17 Yet they sinned still more against him,
rebelling against the Most High in the desert.(A)
Deuteronomy 9:21-22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
21 Then I took the sinful thing you had made, the calf, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it thoroughly, until it was reduced to dust, and I threw the dust into the stream that runs down the mountain.(A)
22 “At Taberah also, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked the Lord to wrath.(B)
Read full chapter
Numbers 14:11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?(A)
Read full chapterNew Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.