Psalms 95 · Verse 9

Psalms 95:9

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
Psalms 95:9, King James Version

Psalms 95:9 in other translations

BSBwhere your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
WEBwhen your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
ASVWhen your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work.
YLTWhere your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.
DARBYWhen your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
BBEWhen your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.
WebsterWhen your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

What does Psalms 95:9 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 95:8-11

8-11. warning against neglect; and this is sustained by citing the melancholy fate of their rebellious ancestors, whose provoking insolence is described by quoting the language of God's complaint (Nu 14:11) of their conduct at Meribah and Massah, names given (Ex 17:7) to commemorate their strife and contention with Him (Psa 78:18, 41).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 9 When your fathers tempted me - Tried me, by their insolence, unbelief, and blasphemy. They proved me - they had full proof of my power to save and to destroy. There they saw my works - they saw that nothing was too hard for God.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 95:1-11

Chapter Outline part. An exhortation to praise God. (1-7) A warning not to tempt Him. (7-11) Verses 1-7 Whenever we come into God's presence, we must come with thanksgiving. The Lord is to be praised; we do not want matter, it were well if we did not want a heart. How great is that God, whose the whole earth is, and the fulness thereof; who directs and disposes of all!, The Lord Jesus, whom we are here taught to…

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Psalms 95:9 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherwhenH834
נִ֭סּוּנִיNi.su.nithey put to [the] test meH5254
אֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם'a.vo.tei.Khemancestors yourH1
בְּ֝חָנ֗וּנִיbe.cha.Nu.nithey tested meH974
גַּם\־gam-alsoH1571
רָא֥וּra.'Uthey had seenH7200
פָעֳלִֽי\׃fo.'o.Liwork myH6467

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 95:9

  • Numbers 14:22

    Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

  • 1 Corinthians 10:9

    Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

  • Psalms 78:56

    Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

  • Psalms 78:40-41

    How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

  • Psalms 78:17-18

    And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

  • John 15:24

    If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

  • Matthew 11:20-22

    Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
When.
78:17,18,40,41,56; 1Co 10:9
saw.
Nu 14:22; Mt 11:20-22; Joh 15:24

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Context

  • Psalms 95:8

    Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

  • Psalms 95:9

    When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

  • Psalms 95:10

    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:

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Psalms 95:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Donde me tentaron vuestros padres, probáronme, y vieron mi obra.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Où vos pères m’ont tenté, éprouvé, et ont vu mes œuvres.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Als eure Väter mich versuchten, mich prüften, und sie sahen doch mein Werk!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
adorate Dominum in atrio sancto ejus. Commoveatur a facie ejus universa terra;