And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your harlotries, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.

After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.

And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.

And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;

And the time in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were perished from among the camp as the LORD swore unto them.

So it came to pass, when all the men of war were perished and dead from among the people,

When your fathers tested me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, by whom you are sealed unto the day of redemption.

O LORD, why have you made us to err from your ways, and hardened our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are worked in God.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not proper;