And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
They did not keep God's covenant, but refused to walk according to his law.
But they soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. “Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.
And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?
And he answered them, “O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me.”
because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes.
Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil, that you may be saved. How long shall your wicked thoughts lodge within you?
And he said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my God also?
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all.’”
Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.
because they did not believe in God and did not trust his saving power.
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
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