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For he is our God,
    we are the people he shepherds,
    the sheep in his hands.(A)

III

Oh, that today you would hear his voice:(B)
    Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah,
    as on the day of Massah in the desert.[a]
There your ancestors tested me;
    they tried me though they had seen my works.(C)
10 Forty years I loathed that generation;
    I said: “This people’s heart goes astray;
    they do not know my ways.”(D)
11 Therefore I swore in my anger:
    “They shall never enter my rest.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 95:8 Meribah: lit., “contention”; the place where the Israelites quarreled with God. Massah: “testing,” the place where they put God to the trial, cf. Ex 17:7; Nm 20:13.
  2. 95:11 My rest: the promised land as in Dt 12:9. Hb 4 applies the verse to the eternal rest of heaven.