Parallel Verses

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:

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.

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.’

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;

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 tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work. 10 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: 11 Wherefore I sware in my wrath, That they should not enter into my rest.

Cross References

Hebrews 3:17

And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Acts 7:36

This man led them forth, having wrought wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

Genesis 6:6

And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

Numbers 14:33-34

And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.

Numbers 32:13

And Jehovah's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander to and fro in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of Jehovah, was consumed.

Deuteronomy 1:3

And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that Jehovah had given him in commandment unto them;

Deuteronomy 2:14-16

And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah sware unto them.

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1:22-29

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?

Isaiah 63:17

O Jehovah, why dost thou make us to err from thy ways, and hardenest our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants'sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

Jeremiah 9:6

Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.

John 3:19-21

And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

Acts 13:18

And for about the time of forty years as a nursing-father bare he them in the wilderness.

Romans 1:28

And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Ephesians 4:30

And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.

Hebrews 3:9-10

Where your fathers tried me by proving me, And saw my works forty years.

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