‘When the Lord heard your words, he grew angry and swore an oath:
However, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land I had given them #– #the most beautiful of all lands, flowing with milk and honey #– #
And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who disobeyed?
And here you, a brood of sinners, stand in your ancestors’ place adding even more to the Lord’s burning anger against Israel.