Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways;’
- KJV Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
- NKJV Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.’
- NASB “Therefore I was angry with this generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they did not know My ways’;
- NLT So I was angry with them, and I said, ‘Their hearts always turn away from me. They refuse to do what I tell them.’
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God was displeased with that generation, whose hearts continually went astray and who did not know His ways. Chronic waywardness drew God's displeasure.
Overview
Psalm 95 records God's grief and anger over a generation whose hearts persistently wandered. Their failure was not mere ignorance but a settled refusal to learn and walk in God's ways. The passage warns the readers that a straying heart, left unchecked, leads to God's righteous displeasure.
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- Ps 95:10For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
- 2 Th 2:10–12and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
- Eph 4:30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
- Jer 4:22“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
- Ps 78:8Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
- Ps 67:2that Your ways may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations.
- Isa 63:10But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
- Hos 4:12My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.
- Heb 3:12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
- Isa 28:7These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.
- Mark 3:5Jesus looked around at them with anger and sorrow at their hardness of heart. Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored.
- Judg 10:16So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
- John 8:45But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!
- Ps 147:20He has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!
- Gen 6:6And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
- Ps 78:40How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
- John 3:19–20And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
- Rom 3:7However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?
- Rom 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
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