But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

他们却仍旧得罪他，在干燥之地悖逆至高者。

他们却仍旧得罪他，在干旱之地悖逆至高者。

他们却仍旧得罪他，在干旱之地悖逆至高者。

然而，他们仍旧犯罪，在旷野反叛至高的上帝。

但他们仍然犯罪顶撞他，在干旱之地仍然悖逆至高者。

可是他们又继续对他犯罪，在那干旱之地悖逆至高者。

他們卻仍舊得罪他，在乾燥之地悖逆至高者。

他們卻仍舊得罪他，在乾旱之地悖逆至高者。

他們卻仍舊得罪他，在乾旱之地悖逆至高者。

然而，他們仍舊犯罪，在曠野反叛至高的上帝。

但他們仍然犯罪頂撞他，在乾旱之地仍然悖逆至高者。

他們卻仍然犯罪、更加得罪了他，在乾旱之地悖逆了至高者。

可是他們又繼續對他犯罪，在那乾旱之地悖逆至高者。

民猶干罪、逆至上者於野兮、

斯民在野、犯罪愈多、干至上震怒兮、

豈知彼在曠野、仍然得罪天主、依舊背逆至上之主、

群民無饜。厥欲是逞。

But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High.

But they continued to sin against him. In the desert they refused to obey the Most High God.

Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.

Yet they kept on sinning against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.

But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

Yet they still continued to sin against Him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.

But they sinned even more against Him By rebelling against the Most High in the wilderness.

Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.

And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

Yet they continued to sin against him, and rebelled against the sovereign One in the desert.

Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He became their enemy and fought against them.

They soon forgot His works and would not wait for His counsel.They were seized with craving in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.He gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease among them.In the camp they were envious of Moses and of Aaron, the Lord’s holy one.The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.Fire blazed throughout their assembly; flames consumed the wicked.At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped the cast metal image.They exchanged their glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,wonderful works in the land of Ham, awe-inspiring acts at the Red Sea.So He said He would have destroyed them— if Moses His chosen one had not stood before Him in the breach to turn His wrath away from destroying them.They despised the pleasant land and did not believe His promise.They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the Lord’s voice.So He raised His hand against them with an oath that He would make them fall in the desertand would disperse their descendants among the nations, scattering them throughout the lands.They aligned themselves with Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.They provoked the Lord with their deeds, and a plague broke out against them.But Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was stopped.It was credited to him as righteousness throughout all generations to come.They angered the Lord at the waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them;

You provoked the Lord at Horeb, and He was angry enough with you to destroy you.

“ The Lord said to me,‘ Get up and go down immediately from here. For your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned from the way that I commanded them; they have made a cast image for themselves.’The Lord also said to me,‘ I have seen this people, and indeed, they are a stiff-necked people.Leave Me alone, and I will destroy them and blot out their name under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.’“ So I went back down the mountain, while it was blazing with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.I saw how you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made a calf image for yourselves. You had quickly turned from the way the Lord had commanded for you.So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands, shattering them before your eyes.Then I fell down like the first time in the presence of the Lord for 40 days and 40 nights; I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and provoking Him to anger.I was afraid of the fierce anger the Lord had directed against you, because He was about to destroy you. But again the Lord listened to me on that occasion.The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. But I prayed for Aaron at that time also.I took the sinful calf you had made, burned it up, and crushed it, thoroughly grinding it to powder as fine as dust. Then I threw it into the stream that came down from the mountain.“ You continued to provoke the Lord at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-hattaavah.

Despite all this, they kept sinning and did not believe His wonderful works.

Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as on that day at Massah in the wildernesswhere your fathers tested Me; they tried Me, though they had seen what I did.For 40 years I was disgusted with that generation; I said,“ They are a people whose hearts go astray; they do not know My ways.”

For who heard and rebelled? Wasn’t it really all who came out of Egypt under Moses?And who was He provoked with for 40 years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?And who did He swear to that they would not enter His rest, if not those who disobeyed?So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.