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do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness, where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work. For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, "They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways." So I swore on oath in My anger, "They shall never enter My rest."
Earlier text
Exodus 17:7BSB
He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"
Psalm 95:8 warns "do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness" (מְרִיבָה, Meribah; מַסָּה, Massah) — directly naming the two incidents from Exodus 17:7, where Moses "named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, 'Is the LORD among us or not?'" The psalm preserves the exact place-names that Exodus 17:7 assigns: Massah (מַסָּה, "testing") and Meribah (מְרִיבָה, "quarreling"). By embedding these historical names in a worship psalm introduced by "Come, let us sing" (v. 1), the psalmist transforms the Exodus narrative into a standing liturgical warning: the same God who provides water from the rock can also swear in His wrath to exclude the faithless from His rest.