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For he is our God,
    we are the people he shepherds,
    the sheep in his hands.(A)

III

Oh, that today you would hear his voice:(B)
    Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah,
    as on the day of Massah in the desert.[a]
There your ancestors tested me;
    they tried me though they had seen my works.(C)
10 Forty years I loathed that generation;
    I said: “This people’s heart goes astray;
    they do not know my ways.”(D)
11 Therefore I swore in my anger:
    “They shall never enter my rest.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 95:8 Meribah: lit., “contention”; the place where the Israelites quarreled with God. Massah: “testing,” the place where they put God to the trial, cf. Ex 17:7; Nm 20:13.
  2. 95:11 My rest: the promised land as in Dt 12:9. Hb 4 applies the verse to the eternal rest of heaven.

for he is our God
    and we are the people of his pasture,(A)
    the flock under his care.

Today, if only you would hear his voice,
“Do not harden your hearts(B) as you did at Meribah,[a](C)
    as you did that day at Massah[b] in the wilderness,(D)
where your ancestors tested(E) me;
    they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
10 For forty years(F) I was angry with that generation;
    I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,(G)
    and they have not known my ways.’(H)
11 So I declared on oath(I) in my anger,
    ‘They shall never enter my rest.’”(J)

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Footnotes

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