“Has anyone said to God, ‘I have endured chastisement, but I will not act wrongly any more.

For I suffer humiliation for your sake and am thoroughly disgraced.

I am oppressed and have been on the verge of death since my youth. I have been subjected to your horrors and am numb with pain.

A song of ascents. I look up toward you, the one enthroned in heaven.

“Very well,” he replied, “I will grant this request too and will not overthrow the town you mentioned.

May I hear about your loyal love in the morning, for I trust in you. Show me the way I should go, because I long for you.

For after we turned away from you we repented. After we came to our senses we beat our breasts in sorrow. We are ashamed and humiliated because of the disgraceful things we did previously.’

I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.

Then you will know that I am the Lord when I bring you to the land of Israel, to the land I swore to give to your fathers.

So this is what the sovereign Lord says: I vow that the nations around you will endure insults as well.

You must divide it equally just as I vowed to give it to your forefathers; this land will be assigned as your inheritance.

I will bring you to the land I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob – and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord!’”

You will by no means enter into the land where I swore to settle you. The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Moses was very angry, and he said to the Lord, “Have no respect for their offering! I have not taken so much as one donkey from them, nor have I harmed any one of them!”

So I did just as I was commanded. I carried out my belongings packed for exile during the day, and at evening I dug myself a hole through the wall with my hands. I went out in the darkness, carrying my baggage on my shoulder while they watched.

On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them – a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

Because they used to minister to them before their idols, and became a sinful obstacle to the house of Israel, consequently I have made a vow concerning them, declares the sovereign Lord, that they will be responsible for their sin.

I brought them to the land which I swore to give them, but whenever they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there and presented the offerings that provoke me to anger. They offered their soothing aroma there and poured out their drink offerings.