Your children will wander in the wilderness for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last one of you dies.

You will suffer the consequences of your sin for forty years, one year for each of the forty days you spent exploring the land. You will know what it means to have me against you!

The LORD became angry with the people and made them wander in the wilderness forty years until that whole generation that had displeased him was dead.

On the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year after they had left Egypt, Moses told the people everything the LORD had commanded him to tell them.

This was thirty-eight years after we had left Kadesh Barnea. All the fighting men of that generation had died, as the LORD had said they would.

"After they had all died,

There they put me to the test and tried me, says God, although they had seen what I did for forty years.

And so I was angry with those people and said, 'They are always disloyal and refuse to obey my commands.'

With whom was God angry for forty years? With the people who sinned, who fell down dead in the desert.

he was sorry that he had ever made them and put them on the earth. He was so filled with regret

And do not make God's Holy Spirit sad; for the Spirit is God's mark of ownership on you, a guarantee that the Day will come when God will set you free.

Why do you let us stray from your ways? Why do you make us so stubborn that we turn away from you? Come back, for the sake of those who serve you, for the sake of the people who have always been yours.

And so I was angry with those people and said, 'They are always disloyal and refuse to obey my commands.'

With whom was God angry for forty years? With the people who sinned, who fell down dead in the desert.

To have knowledge, you must first have reverence for the LORD. Stupid people have no respect for wisdom and refuse to learn.

"Foolish people! How long do you want to be foolish? How long will you enjoy making fun of knowledge? Will you never learn?

I have been calling you, inviting you to come, but you would not listen. You paid no attention to me.

So when you get into trouble, I will laugh at you. I will make fun of you when terror strikes---

Then you will call for wisdom, but I will not answer. You may look for me everywhere, but you will not find me.

(SEE 9:5)

This is how the judgment works: the light has come into the world, but people love the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil.

But those who do what is true come to the light in order that the light may show that what they did was in obedience to God.

Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do.