Hebrews 3:10
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Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’
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grieved--displeased. Compare "walk contrary," Lev 26:24, Lev 26:28. that generation--"that" implies alienation and estrangement. But the oldest manuscripts read, "this." said--"grieved," or "displeased," at their first offense. Subsequently when they hardened their heart in unbelief still more, He sware in His wrath (Heb 3:11); an ascending gradation (compare Heb 3:17-18). and they have not known--Greek, "But these very persons," &c. They perceived I was displeased with them, yet they, the same persons, did not a whit the more wish to know my ways [BENGEL]; compare "but they," Psa 106:43. not known my ways--not known practically and believingly the ways in which I would have had them go, so as to reach My rest (Exo 18:20).
Open source ↗In this chapter the apostle applies what he had said in the chapter foregoing concerning the priesthood of Christ, I. In a serious pathetic exhortation that this great high priest, who was discovered to them, might be seriously considered by them (Heb 3:1-6). II. He then adds many weighty counsels and cautions (Heb 3:7 to the end).
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For 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.”
“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.”
that Your ways may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations.
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
My 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.
See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
These 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.
He has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!