And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear your harlotry, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.

According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your iniquities one year; forty years; and you shall know My opposition.

And the anger of Jehovah burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the eyes of Jehovah was destroyed.

And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that Jehovah had given him commandment concerning them,

And the time that passed from Kadesh Barnea until we had crossed over the valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, for all the generation of the men of war to be finished off from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah had sworn to them.

So it was, when all the men of war had completely perished from among the people,

where your fathers tested Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.

Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

And Jehovah regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved to His heart.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

O Jehovah, why have You made us wander from Your ways, and hardened our heart from Your fear? For the sake of Your servants, return the tribes of Your inheritance.

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.

Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity; and those who scorn desire their scorning; and fools hate knowledge?

Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one pays attention,

I also will laugh at your calamity, I will mock when your terror comes;

Then they shall call upon me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me.

Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me, says Jehovah.

And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

But the one doing the truth comes to the Light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been worked in God.

And even as they do not like to have God in their full true knowledge, God gives them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;