Forty years long was I grieved with {this} generation, and said, It {is} a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

For my people {is} foolish, they have not known me; they {are} sottish children, and they have none understanding: they {are} wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation {that} set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. {that...: Heb. that prepared not their heart}

That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.

But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, {and} he fought against them.

My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused {them} to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

He hath not dealt so with any nation: and {as for his} judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.

And because I tell {you} the truth, ye believe me not.

And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. {strange...: Heb. gods of strangers} {grieved: Heb. shortened}

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble {in} judgment.

And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched {it} out: and his hand was restored whole as the other. {hardness: or, blindness}

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

And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, {and} grieve him in the desert! {provoke: or, rebel against}

And even as they did not like to retain God in {their} knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; {to retain: or, to acknowledge} {a reprobate...: or, a mind void of judgment or, an unapproving mind}

And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.

And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; {Is it} a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?

He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me.

He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name {is} in him.

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. {strange...: Heb. gods of strangers} {grieved: Heb. shortened}

And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched {it} out: and his hand was restored whole as the other. {hardness: or, blindness}