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

— Author Unknown


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie
Date
1611
Metaphor
"Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness"
Metaphor in Context
6: O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
7: For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
8: Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
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:
11: Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
(Psalms 95:6-11)
Provenance
Searching KJV at UVA's Electronic Text Center
Citation
See The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: & With the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Reuised, by His Maiesties Speciall Co[m]mandement. Appointed to Be Read in Churches. (Imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, Anno Dom. 1611). <Link to ESTC><Link to ESTC>

Text from Bible, King James. University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center.
Date of Entry
07/09/2003
Date of Review
10/23/2003

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.