Hebrews 3:11

Revised Standard Version

As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall never enter my rest.'"

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
So I was angry and made a promise: ‘They will never enter my place of rest.'"

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
so that I sware in my wrathe that they shuld not enter into my rest.

Hebrew Names Version
As I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"

New American Standard Bible
AS I SWORE IN MY ANGER, 'THEY CERTAINLY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST.'"

New Century Version
I was angry and made a promise, ‘They will never enter my rest.'" Psalm 95:7–11

Update Bible Version
As I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

Webster's Bible Translation
So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

English Standard Version
As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.'"

World English Bible
As I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

Weymouth's New Testament
As I swore in My anger, they shall not be admitted to My rest" --

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
to whiche Y swore in my wraththe, thei schulen not entre in to my reste.

English Revised Version
As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

Berean Standard Bible
So I swore on oath in My anger, 'They shall never enter My rest.'"

Contemporary English Version
God became angry and told the people, ‘You will never enter my place of rest!'"

Amplified Bible
SO I SWORE [an oath] IN MY WRATH, 'THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST [the promised land].'"

American Standard Version
As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

Bible in Basic English
And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest.

Complete Jewish Bible
in my anger, I swore that they would not enter my rest."

Darby Translation
so I swore in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest.

International Standard Version
So in my anger I swore a solemn oaththat they would never enter my rest."Psalm 95:7-11">[fn]

Etheridge Translation
So that I sware in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.

Murdock Translation
so that I swore in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.

King James Version (1611)
So I sware in my wrath: they shall not enter into my rest.

New Living Translation
So in my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest.'"

New Life Bible
I was angry with them and said to Myself, ‘They will never go into My rest.'"

New Revised Standard
As in my anger I swore, ‘They will not enter my rest.'"

Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore I sware in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest.

George Lamsa Translation
So I swore in my anger, They shall not enter into my rest.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So I sware in mine anger - they shall not enter into my rest! -

Douay-Rheims Bible
As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So that I sware in my wrath, yf they shall enter into my rest.

Good News Translation
I was angry and made a solemn promise: ‘They will never enter the land where I would have given them rest!'"

Christian Standard Bible®
So I swore in my anger,“They will not enter my rest.”

King James Version
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

Lexham English Bible
As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter into my rest.'"

Literal Translation
so I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest." LXX-Psalm 94:7-11; MT-Psalm 95:7-11

Young's Literal Translation
so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- !')

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
so that I sware in my wrath, that they shulde not enter in to my rest.

Mace New Testament (1729)
so I swear in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest."

THE MESSAGE
The Centerpiece of All We Believe So, my dear Christian friends, companions in following this call to the heights, take a good hard look at Jesus. He's the centerpiece of everything we believe, faithful in everything God gave him to do. Moses was also faithful, but Jesus gets far more honor. A builder is more valuable than a building any day. Every house has a builder, but the Builder behind them all is God. Moses did a good job in God's house, but it was all servant work, getting things ready for what was to come. Christ as Son is in charge of the house. Now, if we can only keep a firm grip on this bold confidence, we're the house! That's why the Holy Spirit says, Today, please listen; don't turn a deaf ear as in "the bitter uprising," that time of wilderness testing! Even though they watched me at work for forty years, your ancestors refused to let me do it my way; over and over they tried my patience. And I was provoked, oh, so provoked! I said, "They'll never keep their minds on God; they refuse to walk down my road." Exasperated, I vowed, "They'll never get where they're going, never be able to sit down and rest."

New English Translation
" As I swore in my anger , ‘ They will never enter my rest! '"

New King James Version
So I swore in My wrath,'They shall not enter My rest.' " Psalms 95:7-11 ">[fn]

Simplified Cowboy Version
That's when I decided 'They won't come through the gate to get rest or grub from my table.'"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
AS I SWORE IN MY WRATH, 'THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST.'"

Legacy Standard Bible
As I swore in My wrath,‘They shall not enter My rest.'"

Contextual Overview

⁷ Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, when you hear his voice, ⁸ do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, ⁹ where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. ¹⁰ Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, 'They always go astray in their hearts; they have not known my ways.' ¹¹ As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall never enter my rest.'" ¹² Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. ¹³ But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. ¹⁴ For we share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end, ¹⁵ while it is said, "Today, when you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." ¹⁶ Who were they that heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I sware: Hebrews 3:18, Hebrews 3:19, Hebrews 4:3, Numbers 14:20-23, Numbers 14:25, Numbers 14:27-30, Numbers 14:35, Numbers 32:10-13, Deuteronomy 1:34, Deuteronomy 1:35, Deuteronomy 2:14

They shall not enter: Gr. If they shall enter

my rest: Hebrews 4:9

Reciprocal: Exodus 23:21 - he will not Joshua 5:6 - sware that Psalms 90:7 - For we Psalms 95:11 - I sware Psalms 106:26 - Therefore Ezekiel 20:15 - I lifted Hebrews 4:1 - his Hebrews 4:5 - General Hebrews 6:18 - two

Cross-References

Genesis 4:10
And the LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.

Psalms 50:21
These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.

Romans 3:20
For no human being will be justified in his sight by works of the law, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So I sware in my wrath,.... Swearing is ascribed to God, to show the certainty of the thing spoken of; as of mercies, when he swears in love, and by his holiness; so here, of punishment, when he swears in wrath, in indignation, in sore displeasure, and the threatened evil is irrevocable and inevitable:

they shall not enter into my rest; into the land of Canaan, called God's rest, because he promised it, and gave it to the Israelites as their rest; and where he himself had a place of rest; and where he gave the Messiah, the author of peace and rest; and which was a type of heaven, that rest from toil and labour, which remains for the people of God; and into which it is said this generation did not enter; for the Jews say f,

"the generation of the wilderness have no part in the world to come:''

but this seems too harsh, for doubtless there were many who died in the wilderness, that went safe to heaven, notwithstanding all their sins and provocations.

f Tzeror Hammor, fol. 118. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So I sware in my wrath - God is often represented in the Scriptures as “swearing” - and usually as swearing by himself, or by his own existence. Of course this in figurative, and denotes a strong affirmation, or a settled and determined purpose. An oath with us implies the strongest affirmation, or the expression of the most settled and determined purpose of mind. The meaning here is, that so refractory and perverse had they showed themselves, that he solemnly resolved that they should never enter into the land of Canaan.

They shall not enter into my rest - Margin, As in the original, “if they shall enter.” That is, they shall not enter. The word (אם ‛im) “if” has this negative meaning in Hebrew, and this meaning is transferred to the Greek word “if;” compare 1 Samuel 3:17; 2 Samuel 3:35; 2 Kings 6:31. It is called “my rest” here, meaning that it was such rest as God had provided, or such as he enjoyed. The particular “rest” referred to here was that of the land of Canaan, but which was undoubtedly regarded as emblematic of the “rest” in heaven. Into that rest God solemnly said they should never enter. They had been rebellious. All the means of reclaiming them had failed. God had warned and entreated them; he had caused his mercies to pass before them, and had visited them with judgments in vain; and he now declares that for all their rebellion they should be excluded from the promised land. God speaks here in the manner of human beings. Men are affected with feelings of indignation in such circumstances, and God makes use of such language as expresses such feelings. But we are to understand it in a manner consistent with his character, and we are not to suppose that he is affected with the same emotions which agitate the bosoms of people. The meaning is, that he formed and expressed a deliberate and solemn purpose that they should never enter into the promised land. Whether this “rest” refers here to heaven, and whether the meaning is that God would exclude them from that blessed world, will be more appropriately considered in the next chapter. The particular idea is, that they were to be excluded from the promised land, and that they should fall in the wilderness. No one can doubt, also, that their conduct had been such as to show that the great body of them were unfit to enter into heaven.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hebrews 3:11. So I sware in my wrath — God's grief at their continued disobedience became wrath at their final impenitence, and therefore he excluded them from the promised rest.