# Psalms 95.10-11

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**Book:** [Psalms](/codex/psalms/) · NASB95

## Immediate context (±2 verses)

**ASV** ([ASV](/codex/asv/))
> 8. Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness; 9. When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work.
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> **10. Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, And they have not known my ways: 11. Wherefore I sware in my wrath, That they should not enter into my rest.** (Psalms 95:8-11, ASV)

**WEB** ([WEB](/codex/web/))
> 8. Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness, 9. when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
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> **10. Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.” 11. Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”** (Psalms 95:8-11, WEB)

**KJV** ([KJV](/codex/kjv/))
> 8. Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: <sup>provocation: Heb. contention</sup> 9. When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
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> **10. 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: 11. Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. <sup>that: Heb. if they enter into my rest</sup>** (Psalms 95:8-11, KJV)

**YLT** ([YLT](/codex/ylt/))
> 8. Harden not your heart as [in] Meribah, As [in] the day of Massah in the wilderness, 9. Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.
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> **10. Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, 'A people erring in heart, they! And they have not known My ways:' 11. Where I sware in Mine anger, 'If they come in unto My rest, !'** (Psalms 95:8-11, YLT)

## Setting

- **Speaker:** _TBD_
- **Audience:** _TBD_
- **Location:** _TBD_
- **Time period:** _TBD_

## Theological reading

_Patristic / early-church-father exegesis, to be added._

## Key words

_Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word._

- None of the words in this verse has its own lexicon entry yet.


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## Quoted in

**Arguments and defeaters:**

- [God Lied About the Promised Land Objection Defeater](/codex/god-lied-about-the-promised-land-objection-defeater/)

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## Notes

_Your annotations._

## Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the **most literal English translations available** (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the **public domain in the United States**, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

- **[ASV](/codex/asv/)** (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
- **[WEB](/codex/web/)** (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
- **[KJV](/codex/kjv/)** (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
- **[YLT](/codex/ylt/)** (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

See [Bibles](/codex/bibles/) for the full per-translation history, translators, textual basis, strengths, and weaknesses.