So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”
- KJV Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
- NKJV So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”
- NASB “Therefore I swore in My anger, They certainly shall not enter My rest.”
- NLT So in my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”
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Quick answer
Therefore God swore in His wrath that they would not enter His rest. Unbelief barred that generation from the promised rest.
Overview
Because of their hardened unbelief, God solemnly excluded the wilderness generation from entering the land of rest. This judgment frames the psalm's urgent warning to respond rightly 'today.' Hebrews develops this into the promise of a greater Sabbath rest entered by faith in Christ, urging us not to fall by the same disobedience (Hebrews 4:1-11).
Cross-references & the web
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- Heb 4:3Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.
- Heb 4:5And again, as He says in the passage above: “They shall never enter My rest.”
- Num 14:23not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.
- Heb 3:11So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”
- Heb 3:18And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
- Jer 6:16This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
- Matt 11:28–29Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- Deut 1:34–35When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,
- Deut 12:9For you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.
- Rev 14:13And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds will follow them.”
- Num 14:28–30So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.
- Gen 2:2–3And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
- Hos 4:4–11But let no man contend; let no man offer reproof; for your people are like those who contend with a priest.
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