7  For he is our God,

and we are the people of his pasture,

and the sheep of his hand.

^xToday, if you hear his voice,

8  do not harden your hearts, ^yas at Meribah,

as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,

9  when your fathers ^zput me to the test

and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.

10  For forty years I loathed that generation

and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart,

and they have not known my ways.”

11  ^aTherefore I ^bswore in my wrath,

“They shall not enter my rest.”