Therefore the people found fault with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you find fault with me? Why do you put the Lord to the proof?”
Psalm 95:8 - Revised Standard Version Harden not your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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: |
Therefore the people found fault with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you find fault with me? Why do you put the Lord to the proof?”
And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the faultfinding of the children of Israel, and because they put the Lord to the proof by 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; as the Lord had said.
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 his glory was taken from him;
And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs which I have wrought among 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,
“How long shall this wicked congregation murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the people of Israel, which they murmur against me.
These are the waters of Meribah, where the people of Israel contended with the Lord, and he showed himself holy among them.
but when some were stubborn and disbelieved, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them, taking the disciples with him, and argued daily in the 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.
“You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.
See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less shall we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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.
Why should you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had made sport of them, did not they let the people go, and they departed?