Fury is not in me. Oh that I had briars and thorns in battle against me! I would march against them, I would burn them together.

to whom he said, This is the rest: cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing. But they would not hear.

For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow when he would wrap himself in it.

Bread corn is crushed, because he will not ever be threshing it; and if he drove the wheels of his cart and his horses over it, he would not crush it.

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

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

Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! Then would thy peace have been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea;

and thy seed would have been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof: their name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

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