Psalms 95:11
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.””
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BSBPD
“So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Wherefore I sware in my wrath, That they should not enter into my rest.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Where I sware in Mine anger, `If they come in unto My rest--!'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 95:11 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 2:2And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
- Numbers 14:23not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.
- Numbers 14:28So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.
- Numbers 14:30Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
- Deuteronomy 1:34When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,
- Deuteronomy 1:35“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,
- Deuteronomy 12:9For you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.
- Jeremiah 6:16This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
- Ezekiel 13:9My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and speak lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of My people or be recorded in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.
- Hosea 4:4But let no man contend; let no man offer reproof; for your people are like those who contend with a priest.
- Matthew 11:28Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- Hebrews 3:11So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”
- Hebrews 3:18And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
- Hebrews 4:3Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.
- Hebrews 4:5And again, as He says in the passage above: “They shall never enter My rest.”
- Revelation 14:13And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds will follow them.”
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