Deuteronomy 1:31

“Do you thus repay Yahweh, O people who are wickedly foolish and without wisdom? Is not He your Father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

“But they, our fathers, acted presumptuously; They became stiff-necked and would not listen to Your commandments.

Save Your people and bless Your inheritance; Be their shepherd also, and carry them forever.

In all their distress He was distressed, And the angel of His presence saved them; In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them, And He lifted them and carried them all the ancient days.

not like the covenant which I cut with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, but I was a husband to them,” declares Yahweh.

Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them in My arms; But they did not know that I healed them.

“‘A son honors his father, and a slave his master. Then if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is the fear of Me?’ says Yahweh of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

“And for a period of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness.