For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who err in heart, and they do not regard my ways.”
Hebrews 3:17 - Revised Standard Version And with whom was he provoked forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And with whom was He irritated and provoked and grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dismembered bodies were strewn and left in the desert? American Standard Version (1901) And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? Common English Bible And with whom was God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it with the ones who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert? Catholic Public Domain Version So against whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not those who had sinned, whose dead bodies lay prostrate in the desert? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert? |
For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who err in heart, and they do not regard my ways.”
Speak, “Thus says the Lord: ‘The dead bodies of men shall fall like dung upon the open field, like sheaves after the reaper, and none shall gather them.’ ”
none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the proof these ten times and have not hearkened to my voice,
Say to them, ‘As I live, says the Lord, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:
your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and of all your number, numbered from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,
the men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by plague before the Lord.
Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.