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And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?

…not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.

But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”

When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.

When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

Thus the sin of these young men was severe in the sight of the LORD, for they were treating the LORD’s offering with contempt.

Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD, the son born to you will surely die.”

For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.

Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”

How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?

Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

…because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.

They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.

…and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent.

…when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels—for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.

Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.

The sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet and call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

For the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.

They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’

“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.

He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.