Text -- Psalms 95:9-11 (NET)

95:9 where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work. 95:10 For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said, ‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’ 95:11 So I made a vow in my anger, ‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 95:9

¹ tn Heb “where your fathers tested me.”

NET Notes: Psa 95:10

¹ tn The prefixed verbal form is either a preterite or an imperfect. If the latter, it emphasizes the ongoing nature of the condition in the past. The translation reflects this interpretation of the verbal form.

² tn Heb “a people, wanderers of heart [are] they.”

³ tn Heb “and they do not know my ways.” In this context the Lord’s “ways” are his commands, viewed as a pathway from which his people, likened to wayward sheep (see v. 7), wander.

NET Notes: Psa 95:11

¹ tn Heb “my resting place.” The promised land of Canaan is here viewed metaphorically as a place of rest for God’s people, who are compared to sheep (see v. 7).