But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
And þe hous of Israel terriden me to wrathþe in desert; þei yeden not in my comaundementis, and þei castiden awei my domes, whiche a man þat doith, schal lyue in tho; and þei defouliden greetli my sabatis. Þerfor Y seide, þat Y wolde schede out my strong veniaunce on hem in desert, and waste hem;