3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, 1
“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! 2
3:8 “Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.
3:9 “There your fathers tested me and tried me, 3 and they saw my works for forty years.
3:10 “Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering 4 and they have not known my ways.’
3:11 “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’” 5
3:12 See to it, 6 brothers and sisters, 7 that none of you has 8 an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes 9 the living God. 10 3:13 But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.
1 sn The following quotation is from Ps 95:7b-11.
2 tn Grk “today if you hear his voice.”
3 tn Grk “tested me by trial.”
4 tn Grk “they are wandering in the heart.”
5 tn Grk “if they shall enter my rest,” a Hebrew idiom expressing an oath that something will certainly not happen.
6 tn Or “take care.”
7 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11.
8 tn Grk “that there not be in any of you.”
9 tn Or “deserts,” “rebels against.”
10 tn Grk “in forsaking the living God.”