“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:”
God's judgment: "For forty years I loathed that generation and said, 'It is a people whose hearts go astray, and they do not regard my ways.'" The divine judgment of the wilderness generation identifies their error as straying from God's ways. The forty years suggest the duration of wandering.
Church Fathers on Psalms 95:10
1. I could wish, brethren, that we were rather listening to our father: but even this is a good thing, to obey our father. Since therefore he who deigns to pray for us, has ordered us, I will speak unto you, beloved, what from the present Psalm Jesus Christ our common Lord shall deign to give us. Now the title of the Psalm is “David's Song of praise.” The “Song of praise” signifies both cheerfulness, in that it is a song; and devotion, for it is praise. For what ought a man…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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