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Bible in Basic English

For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;

New American Standard Bible

“For forty years I loathed that generation,
And said they are a people who err in their heart,
And they do not know My ways.

King James Version

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

Holman Bible

For 40 years I was disgusted with that generation;
I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray;
they do not know My ways.”

International Standard Version

For forty years I loathed that generation, so I said, "They are a people whose hearts continuously err, and they have not understood my ways."

A Conservative Version

Forty years long I was grieved with [that] generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways.

American Standard Version

Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, And they have not known my ways:

Amplified


“For forty years I was grieved and disgusted with that generation,
And I said, ‘They are a people who err in their heart,
And they do not acknowledge or regard My ways.’

Darby Translation

Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways;

Julia Smith Translation

Forty years I shall loathe to the generation, and saying, A people they wandering in heart, and they knew not my ways:

King James 2000

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

Lexham Expanded Bible

For forty years I loathed [that] generation, and said, '[They are] a people [whose] heart wanders. And my ways they do not know.'

Modern King James verseion

For forty years I was grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people who go astray in their hearts, and they have not known My ways;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, and said, "They ever err in their hearts, they verily have not known my ways."

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."

The Emphasized Bible

Forty years, loathed I that generation, So I said - A people going astray in heart, they are, Even they, have not known my ways!

Webster

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

World English Bible

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."

Youngs Literal Translation

Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, 'A people erring in heart -- they! And they have not known My ways:'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ארבּעים 
'arba`iym 
Usage: 136

שׁנה שׁנה 
Shaneh (in pl. only), 
year, not translated, yearly, yearly + , year , live , old ,
Usage: 811

קוּט 
Quwt 
Usage: 6

דּר דּור 
Dowr 
Usage: 167

and said

Usage: 0

It is a people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

that do err
תּעה 
Ta`ah 
Usage: 50

לבב 
Lebab 
Usage: 251

References

Context Readings

A Call To Worship And Obey

9 When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work. 10 For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways; 11 And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.


Cross References

Hebrews 3:17

And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?

Acts 7:36

This man took them out, having done wonders and signs in Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the waste land, for forty years.

Genesis 6:6

And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.

Numbers 14:33-34

And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.

Numbers 32:13

Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them wanderers in the waste land for forty years? till all that generation who had done evil in the eyes of the Lord was dead.

Deuteronomy 1:3

Now in the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses gave to the children of Israel all the orders which the Lord had given him for them;

Deuteronomy 2:14-16

Thirty-eight years had gone by from the time when we came away from Kadesh-barnea till we went over the stream Zered; by that time all the generation of the men of war among us were dead, as the Lord had said.

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.

Proverbs 1:22-29

How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

Isaiah 63:17

O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.

Jeremiah 9:6

There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.

John 3:19-21

And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

Acts 13:18

And for about forty years he put up with their ways in the waste land.

Romans 1:28

And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

Ephesians 4:30

And do not give grief to the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were marked for the day of salvation.

Hebrews 3:9-10

When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.

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