²⁶ “Nevertheless they ^(A)were disobedient
And rebelled against You,
^(B)Cast Your law behind their backs
And killed Your ^(C)prophets, who ^[a]testified against them
To turn them to Yourself;
And they worked great provocations.

¹⁶ “But^(A) they and our fathers acted ^[a]proudly,
^(B)Hardened^[b] their necks,
And did not heed Your commandments.
¹⁷ They refused to obey,
And ^(C)they were not mindful of Your wonders
That You did among them.
But they hardened their necks,
And ^[c]in their rebellion
They appointed ^(D)a leader
To return to their bondage.
But You are God,
Ready to pardon,
^(E)Gracious and merciful,
Slow to anger,
Abundant in kindness,
And did not forsake them.

^(C)“Today, if you will hear His voice,
⁸ Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
⁹ Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.
¹⁰ Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they have not known My ways.’