³⁰ For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight ^(A)from their youth. The children of Israel have done nothing but ^(B)provoke me to anger ^(C)by the work of their hands, declares the Lord.

²² For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them ^(A)concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. ²³ But this command I gave them: ^(B)‘Obey my voice, and ^(C)I will be your God, and you shall be my people. ^(D)And walk in all the way that I command you, ^(E)that it may be well with you.’ ^24 (F)But they did not obey or incline their ear, ^(G)but walked in their own counsels and ^(H)the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and ^(I)went backward and not forward. ²⁵ From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, ^(J)I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day. ^26 (K)Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, ^(L)but stiffened their neck. ^(M)They did worse than their fathers.

^7 (A)Yet you have not listened to me, declares the Lord, ^(B)that you might provoke me to anger ^(C)with the work of your hands to your own harm.

^25 (A)Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us. For ^(B)we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

⁷ Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. ^(A)From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. ⁸ Even ^(B)at Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you. ^9 (C)When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain ^(D)forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. ¹⁰ And ^(E)the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words that the Lord had spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire ^(F)on the day of the assembly. ¹¹ And at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. ¹² Then the Lord said to me, ^(G)‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have ^(H)turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them; they have made themselves a metal image.’

²¹ And when the Lord smelled ^(A)the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again ^(B)curse^[a] the ground because of man, for ^(C)the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. ^(D)Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.