Parallel Verses

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.’

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 “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.
11 unto whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.


Cross References

Hebrews 3:17

But with whom was he indignant forty years? Was it not with those that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

Acts 7:36

He brought them out, showing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

Genesis 6:6

And the LORD repented of having made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

Numbers 14:33-34

And your children shall be shepherded in the wilderness forty years and bear your fornications until your carcasses are wasted in the wilderness.

Numbers 32:13

And the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD 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 spoke unto the sons of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had commanded him regarding them;

Deuteronomy 2:14-16

And the days in which we came from Kadeshbarnea until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty-eight years until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the camp, as the LORD swore unto them.

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and chastening.

Proverbs 1:22-29

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and the fools hate knowledge?

Isaiah 63:17

O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways? Hast thou hardened our heart to thy fear? Return for thy slaves, for the tribes of thine inheritance.

Jeremiah 9:6

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

John 3:19-21

And this is the condemnation, that the light is come into the world, and men loved darkness more than the light because their deeds were evil.

Acts 13:18

And for the time of about forty years, he suffered their manners in the wilderness.

Romans 1:28

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a perverse understanding, to do those things which are not convenient,

Ephesians 4:30

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God with which ye are sealed for the day of redemption.

Hebrews 3:9-10

Where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

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