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 the Lord?”
Psalm 95:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Harden not your heart, As in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Harden not your hearts as at Meribah and as at Massah in the day of temptation in the wilderness, [Exod. 17:1-7; Num. 20:1-13; Deut. 6:16.] American Standard Version (1901) Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness; Common English Bible “Don’t harden your hearts like you did at Meribah, like you did when you were at Massah, in the wilderness, Catholic Public Domain Version Bring to the Lord glory for his name. Lift up sacrifices, and enter into his courts. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version bring to the Lord glory unto his name. Bring up sacrifices, and come into his courts: |
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 the Lord?”
He called the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled and tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”
But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.
But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he acted proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and his glory was stripped from him.
And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?
none of the people who have seen my glory and the signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness and yet have tested me these ten times and have not obeyed my voice
“How long shall this wicked congregation complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites, which they complain against me.
These are the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the Lord and through which he showed himself to be holy.
When some stubbornly refused to believe and spoke evil of the Way before the congregation, he left them, taking the disciples with him, and argued daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking, for if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject the one who warns from heaven!
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Now I desire to remind you, though you are fully informed, once and for all, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
Why should you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had made fools of them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?