Psalms 95:11

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

To whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

American King James Version (AKJV)

To whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

American Standard Version (ASV)

Wherefore I sware in my wrath, That they should not enter into my rest.

Basic English Translation (BBE)

And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.

Webster's Revision

To whom I swore in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.

World English Bible

Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They won't enter into my rest."

English Revised Version (ERV)

Wherefore I sware in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.

Barnes's Psalms 95:11 Bible Commentary

Unto whom I sware in my wrath - See the notes at Hebrews 3:11.

That they should not enter into my rest - Margin, as in Hebrew, "If they enter into my rest." The "rest" here referred to was the land of Canaan. They were not permitted to enter there as a place of "rest" after their long and weary wanderings, but died in the wilderness. The meaning is not that none of them were saved (for we must hope that very many of them were brought to the heavenly Canaan), but that they did not come to the promised land. Unbelief shut them out; and this fact is properly made use of here, and in Hebrews 3, as furnishing a solemn warning to all not to be unbelieving and rebellious, since the consequence of unbelief and rebellion must be to exclude us from the kingdom of heaven, the true place of "rest."

Wesley's Psalms 95:11 Bible Commentary

95:11 My rest - Into the promised land, which is called the rest, Deut 12:9.