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Psalms 95:9 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.”

Psalms 95:9

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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,

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Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, {and} as {in} the day of temptation in the wilderness: {provocation: Heb. contention}

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When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

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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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Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. {that...: Heb. if they enter into my rest}

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