7 “Remember: Do not forget how you have provoked Jehovah your God in the wilderness.+ From the day that you went out of the land of Egypt until YOUR coming to this place YOU people have proved rebellious in YOUR behavior with Jehovah.+

9 and the sons of Israel went searching into the things that were not right toward Jehovah their God+ and kept building themselves high places+ in all their cities, from the tower+ of the watchmen clear to the fortified city;

16 “And they themselves, even our forefathers, acted presumptuously+ and proceeded to harden their neck,+ and they did not listen to your commandments.

7 “And I gradually brought YOU to a land of the orchard, to eat its fruitage and its good things.+ But YOU came in and defiled my land; and my own inheritance YOU made something detestable.+

25 We lie down in our shame,+ and our humiliation keeps covering us;+ for it is toward Jehovah our God that we have sinned,+ we and our fathers from our youth on and down to this day,+ and we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.”+

8 “‘And I came passing along by you and got to see you, and, look! your time was the time for love’s expressions.+ So I proceeded to spread my skirt over you+ and to cover your nudeness and to make a sworn statement to you and enter into a covenant with you,’+ is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah, ‘and so you became mine.+

28 And I proceeded to bring them into the land+ that I had lifted up my hand [in an oath] to give them.+ When they got to see every exalted hill+ and every branchy tree, then they began sacrificing there their sacrifices+ and giving there their offensive offering, and presenting there their restful* odors+ and pouring out there their drink offerings.+

51 “Obstinate* men and uncircumcised in hearts+ and ears, YOU are always resisting the holy spirit; as YOUR forefathers did, so YOU do.+