<p class="poetry">How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,p> <p class="poetry">and insulted him<n id="1" /> in the desert!p>

<p class="poetry">for they aroused<n id="1" /> his temper,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and he spoke rashly.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;We<n id="1" /> have blatantly rebelled;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you<n id="3" /> have not forgiven.&#8221;p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1512; (<i>Reshi>)p> <p class="poetry">Look, O <sc>Lordsc>! I am distressed;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">my stomach is in knots!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">My heart is pounding<n id="3" /> inside me.p> <p class="poetry">Yes, I was terribly rebellious!<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Out in the street the sword bereaves a mother of her children;<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">Inside the house death is present.<n id="6" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">You were not willing to go up, however, but instead rebelled against the <sc>Lordsc> your God.<n id="1" />

You have been rebelling against him<n id="1" /> from the very first day I knew you!p>

<p class="poetry">Surely mockery<n id="1" /> is with me;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">my eyes must dwell on their hostility.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yet they continued to sin against him,p> <p class="poetry">and rebelled against the sovereign One<n id="1" /> in the desert.p>

<p class="poetry">Yet they challenged and defied<n id="1" /> the sovereign God,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and did not obey<n id="3" /> his commands.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">He made it dark;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they did not disobey his orders.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Many times he delivered<n id="1" /> them,p> <p class="poetry">but they had a rebellious attitude,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and degraded themselves<n id="3" /> by their sin.p>

<p class="poetry">because they had rebelled against God&#8217;s commands,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and rejected the instructions of the sovereign king.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts.p> <p class="poetry">They have turned aside and gone their own way.<n id="1" />p>

I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> and recklessly went up to the hill country.

<p class="poetry">Condemn them,<n id="1" /> O God!p> <p class="poetry">May their own schemes be their downfall!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Drive them away<n id="3" /> because of their many acts of insurrection,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">for they have rebelled against you.p>

<p class="poetry">But if you refuse and rebel,p> <p class="poetry">you will be devoured<n id="1" /> by the sword.&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">Know for certain that the <sc>Lordsc> has spoken.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> has spoken to me clearly;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I have not rebelled,p> <p class="poetry">I have not turned back.p>

<p class="poetry">But they rebelled and offended<n id="1" /> his holy Spirit,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">so he turned into an enemyp> <p class="poetry">and fought against them.p>

<p class="poetry">They will surround Jerusalem<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">like men guarding a field<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because they have rebelled against me,&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

For<n id="1" /> in the wilderness of Zin when the community rebelled against me, you<n id="2" /> rebelled against my command<n id="3" /> to show me as holy<n id="4" /> before their eyes over the water &#8211; the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.&#8221;p>