Hebrews 3:7-13

Exposition of Psalm 95: Hearing God’s Word in Faith

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.

[3:7]  ¹ sn The following quotation is from Ps 95:7b-11.

[3:7]  ² tn Grk “today if you hear his voice.”

[3:9]  ³ tn Grk “tested me by trial.”

[3:10]  ⁴ tn Grk “they are wandering in the heart.”

[3:11]  ⁵ tn Grk “if they shall enter my rest,” a Hebrew idiom expressing an oath that something will certainly not happen.

[3:12]  ⁶ tn Or “take care.”

[3:12]  ⁷ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11.

[3:12]  ⁸ tn Grk “that there not be in any of you.”

[3:12]  ⁹ tn Or “deserts,” “rebels against.”

[3:12]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “in forsaking the living God.”