Hebrews 3:8-11

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, ¹  and they saw my works for forty years.

3:10 “Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering ²  and they have not known my ways.’

3:11 “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’” ³ 

[3:9]  ¹ tn Grk “tested me by trial.”

[3:10]  ² tn Grk “they are wandering in the heart.”

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