'And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear the brunt of your infidelity, 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 guilt one year, [namely] forty years, and you shall know My rejection.

"So the LORD's anger was aroused against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was gone.

Now it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first [day] of the month, [that] Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him as commandments to them,

"And the time we took to come from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered [was] thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, just as the LORD had sworn to them.

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

Where your fathers tested Me, tried 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 the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

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

O LORD, why have You made us stray from Your ways, [And] hardened our heart from Your fear? Return for Your servants' sake, 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 the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge, [But] fools despise wisdom and instruction.

"How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge.

Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded,

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

"Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.

Your dwelling place [is] in the midst of deceit; Through deceit they refuse to know Me," says the LORD.

"And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

"But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God."

And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;