Psalms 95:8
Hebrew Text— Psalms 95:8Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
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not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,
Jesus answering, said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ”
As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.
He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”
They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”
Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’ ”
I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
Moses said, “Behold, I am going out from you. I will pray to Yahweh that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only don’t let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Yahweh.”
Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn’t let the people go.
Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them. I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!
Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh your God,
At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,
The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.
Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear Yahweh all day long.
One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.
But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask. I won’t tempt Yahweh.”
But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.
The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; for when it is time, he doesn’t come to the opening of the womb.
and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
About that time there arose no small disturbance concerning the Way.
Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
Moses said, “Now Yahweh will give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you, because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh.”
“I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God.’ ”
Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
because in the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, to honor me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
About Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah.
You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.
when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.”
For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to be delivered?” says Yahweh. “Shall I who cause to give birth shut the womb?” says your God.
This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, will even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.
Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your crowns have come down, even the crown of your glory.
“Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
The male goat magnified himself exceedingly. When he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of the sky.
But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.
But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,
But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.
while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”
Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”
Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn’t they let the people go, and they departed?
The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’
But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation that complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel, which they complain against me.
They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.
Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth.
But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.
He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.
But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.