Remember, and forget not, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you did depart out of the land of Egypt, until you came unto this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Strove. Hebrew, "irritated. "(Calmet)
Septuagint, "continually disbelieved the Lord. "Moses hence takes occasion to lay before the people their frequent and most heinous offences, on account of which they might justly have feared being destroyed, as much as the infamous nations whom they were about to supplant. They might thus be convinced that they had been chosen gratuitously. (Haydock)
For God hates nothing more than ingratitude and presumption. (Calmet)