Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together.

to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

For thus said the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. And ye would not:

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not Jehovah? he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient unto his law.

thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.