¹⁰ Therefore I was displeased with that generation, And said, 'They always err in their heart, But they didn't know my ways;'

¹⁰ Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, And said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."

¹⁰ and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

¹¹ Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

¹² that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

¹² Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

³⁰ Don't grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

²⁸ Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

⁴⁵ But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me.

¹⁹ This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

²⁰ For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

⁵ When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

¹² My people consult with their wooded idol, And answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, And they have been unfaithful to their God.

²² For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

¹⁰ But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself fought against them.

⁷ Even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

²⁰ He has not done this for just any nation. They don't know his ordinances. Praise Yah!

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, And grieved him in the desert!

⁸ And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, Whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

² That your way may be known on earth, And your salvation among all nations,

¹⁶ They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

⁶ Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

⁷ For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?