Wherefore I was grieved with that generation and said, 'They ever err in their hearts: they verily have not known my ways,'

Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, and said, "They ever err in their hearts, they verily have not known my ways."

he repented that he had made man upon the earth and sorrowed in his heart.

And they put away the strange gods from them and served the LORD. And the misery of Israel grieved his soul.

That we may know thy way upon earth, thy saving health among all heathen.

And not to be as their forefathers, a faithless and stubborn generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not true toward God.

O how oft did they grieve him in the wilderness? How many a time did they provoke him in the desert?

He hath not dealt so with any nation; neither have the heathen knowledge of his laws. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

But they go wrong by the reason of wine, they fall and stagger because of strong drink. Yea even the priests and prophets themselves go amiss, they are drunken with wine, and weak brained through strong drink. They fail in prophesying, and stumble in judgment.

But after they provoked him to wrath and vexed his holy mind, he was their enemy, and fought against them himself.

"Nevertheless this shall come upon them because my people is become foolish, and hath utterly no understanding. They are the children of foolishness, and without any discretion. To do evil, they have wit enough: but to do well, they have no wisdom."

My people ask counsel at their stocks, their staff must tell them. For a whorish mind hath deceived them, so that they commit fornication against their God.

And he looked round about on them, angrily mourning on the blindness of their hearts. And said to the man, "Stretch forth thine hand." And he stretched it out: And his hand was restored, even as whole as the other.

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

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

And as it seemed not good unto them to be a known of God, even so God delivered them up unto a lewd mind, that they should do those things which were not comely,

If the verity of God appear more excellent through my lie, unto his praise, why am I henceforth judged as a sinner?

And grieve not the holy spirit of God, by whom ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

and in all deceivableness of unrighteousness, among them that perish: because they received not the love of the truth, that they might have been saved.

Take heed, brethren, that there be in none of you an evil heart, in unbelief, that he should depart from the living God:

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Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

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I was

he repented that he had made man upon the earth and sorrowed in his heart.
And they put away the strange gods from them and served the LORD. And the misery of Israel grieved his soul.
O how oft did they grieve him in the wilderness? How many a time did they provoke him in the desert?
But after they provoked him to wrath and vexed his holy mind, he was their enemy, and fought against them himself.
And he looked round about on them, angrily mourning on the blindness of their hearts. And said to the man, "Stretch forth thine hand." And he stretched it out: And his hand was restored, even as whole as the other.
And grieve not the holy spirit of God, by whom ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

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That we may know thy way upon earth, thy saving health among all heathen.
Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, and said, "They ever err in their hearts, they verily have not known my ways."
He hath not dealt so with any nation; neither have the heathen knowledge of his laws. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!
"Nevertheless this shall come upon them because my people is become foolish, and hath utterly no understanding. They are the children of foolishness, and without any discretion. To do evil, they have wit enough: but to do well, they have no wisdom."
If the verity of God appear more excellent through my lie, unto his praise, why am I henceforth judged as a sinner?
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