Parallel Verses

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;

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 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, tested Me, and saw My work. 10 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; 11 to whom I swore in My wrath that they should not enter into My rest.

Cross References

Hebrews 3:17

But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

Acts 7:36

He brought them out after he had worked wonders and miracles in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness forty years.

Genesis 6:6

And Jehovah repented that He had made man on the earth, and He was angry to His heart.

Numbers 14:33-34

And your sons shall feed in the wilderness forty years and bear your fornications, until your dead bodies have wasted in the wilderness.

Numbers 32:13

And Jehovah's anger was kindled against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years until all the generation which had done evil in the sight of Jehovah was destroyed.

Deuteronomy 1:3

And it happened, in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, Moses spoke to the sons of Israel according to all that Jehovah had commanded him concerning them;

Deuteronomy 2:14-16

And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years; until the end of all the generation. The men of war were destroyed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah swore to them.

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1:22-29

How long will you love simplicity, simple ones? And will scorners delight in their scorning? And will fools hate knowledge?

Isaiah 63:17

O Jehovah, why have You made us wander from Your ways. You harden our heart from Your fear? For Your servants' sake, return the tribes of Your inheritance.

Jeremiah 9:6

Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me, says Jehovah.

John 3:19-21

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

Acts 13:18

And about the time of forty years He tenderly bore them in the wilderness.

Romans 1:28

And even as they did not think fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do the things not right,

Ephesians 4:30

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you are sealed until the day of redemption.

Hebrews 3:9-10

when your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.

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