Psalms 95:10

For forty years I was continually disgusted ¹  with that generation, and I said, ‘These people desire to go astray; ²  they do not obey my commands.’ ³ 

Ge 6:6; Nu 14:33,34; Nu 32:13; De 1:3; De 2:14-16; Pr 1:7,22-29; Isa 63:17; Jer 9:6; Joh 3:19-21; Ro 1:28; Eph 4:30; Heb 3:9,10,17; Heb 3:10,17

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.