Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”
- BSB So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter 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 4:3For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
- Heb 4:5And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
- Num 14:23Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
- Heb 3:11So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
- Heb 3:18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
- Jer 6:16Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
- Matt 11:28–29Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
- Deut 1:34–35And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
- Deut 12:9For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.
- Rev 14:13And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
- Num 14:28–30Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
- Gen 2:2–3And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
- Hos 4:4–11Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
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