Key Verse Spotlight
Psalms 95:8 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, {and} as {in} the day of temptation in the wilderness: {provocation: Heb. contention}”
Psalms 95:8
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
For he {is} our God; and we {are} the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, {and} as {in} the day of temptation in the wilderness: {provocation: Heb. contention}
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
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:
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