Psalm 99

¹⁵ So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.^{(A) 16} When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made for yourselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf.^(B) You had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you. ¹⁷ So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, breaking them to pieces before your eyes.

¹⁸ Then once again I fell^(C) prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water,^(D) because of all the sin you had committed,^(E) doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and so arousing his anger. ¹⁹ I feared the anger and wrath of the Lord, for he was angry enough with you to destroy you.^(F) But again the Lord listened to me.^{(G) 20} And the Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I prayed for Aaron too. ²¹ Also I took that sinful thing of yours, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust^(H) and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain.^(I)

²² You also made the Lord angry^(J) at Taberah,^(K) at Massah^(L) and at Kibroth Hattaavah.^(M)

²³ And when the Lord sent you out from Kadesh Barnea,^(N) he said, “Go up and take possession^(O) of the land I have given you.” But you rebelled^(P) against the command of the Lord your God. You did not trust^(Q) him or obey him. ²⁴ You have been rebellious against the Lord ever since I have known you.^(R)

²¹ At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.^(A) Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.

²² “All things have been committed to me by my Father.^(B) No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”^(C)

²³ Then he turned to his disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. ²⁴ For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.”^(D)