Hebrews 3:7-12

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

3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!

3:8Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.

3:9There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

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

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

3:12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God. 10 


sn The following quotation is from Ps 95:7b-11.

tn Grk “today if you hear his voice.”

tn Grk “tested me by trial.”

tn Grk “they are wandering in the heart.”

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

tn Or “take care.”

tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11.

tn Grk “that there not be in any of you.”

tn Or “deserts,” “rebels against.”

10 tn Grk “in forsaking the living God.”