Nehemiah 9:16-18

New Catholic Bible

¹⁶ “However, they and our ancestors acted with arrogance;
    they stubbornly refused to obey your commandments.
¹⁷ They refused to obey you
    and no longer recalled the miracles
    you had wrought among them.
In their obstinacy they became stiff-necked
    and came to a decision
    to return to their slavery in Egypt.
But because you are a forgiving God,
    gracious and compassionate,
Slow to anger and rich in mercy,
    you did not forsake them.
¹⁸ “Even when they had cast for themselves
    a calf out of molten metal
and proclaimed: ‘Here is your God
who brought you up from Egypt,’
and were guilty of gross blasphemies,