Psalms 95:10

“Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, etc.] The generation of the wilderness, as the Jews commonly call them; and which was a stubborn and a rebellious one, whose heart and spirit were not right with God, (<197808>Psalm 78:8), wherefore, speaking after the manner of men, God was grieved with them, as he was with the old world, (<010606>Genesis 6:6), or he was “weary” of them, and “loathed” them as the word f1366 sometimes signifies; wherefore, after the affair of the spies, to which Aben Ezra thinks this had reference, they did not hear from the mouth of the Lord, there was no prophecy sent them by the hand of Moses, as the same writer observes; nor any history or account of…”

“Forty years long - All the time that they were in the wilderness. During this long period their conduct was such as to try my patience and forbearance. Was I grieved - The word used here - קוט qûṭ - means properly to loathe, to nauseate, to be disgusted with. It is translated “loathe” in Ezekiel 6:9; Ezekiel 20:43; Ezekiel 36:31; and grieved in Psalms 119:158; Psalms 139:21. It is here expressive of the strong abhorrence which God had of their conduct. Compare Revelation 3:16. With this generation - With the entire generation that came out of Egypt. They were all cut off in the wilderness, except Caleb and Joshua. And said, It is a people - It is a characteristic of the entire people, that…”

“Do err - Their hearts are insincere and bent to backsliding. Not known - After all my teaching and discoveries of myself to them; they did not know, nor consider, those great things which I had wrought for them. Psalms 95:11”

“Forty: Num 14:33, Num 14:34, Num 32:13; Deu 1:3, Deu 2:14-16; Heb 3:9, Heb 3:10, Heb 3:17 grieved: Gen 6:6; Eph 4:30 err: Isa 63:17; Heb 3:10, Heb 3:17 and they: Pro 1:7, Pro 1:22-29; Jer 9:6; Joh 3:19-21; Rom 1:28 Psalms 95:11”