“Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:”
Warning about hardness of heart: "O that today you would listen to his voice! Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness." The admonition invokes the episode of Israel's testing God (Meribah) and complaining (Massah). The warning against hardened hearts addresses the risk of contemporary unfaithfulness.
Church Fathers on Psalms 95:8
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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