¹² “Then the Lord said to me, ^(A)‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly; they have ^(B)quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molded image.’

¹³ “Furthermore ^(C)the Lord spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed ^(D)they are a ^[a]stiff-necked people. ^14 (E)Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and ^(F)blot out their name from under heaven; ^(G)and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’