“ You, ” confessed the Levites, “were indulgent with them for many years and kept bearing witness against them by your spirit by means of your prophets, and they did not give ear.
הלוויים הודו: ” ותמשוך [הארכת אפך] עליהם שנים רבות ותעד בם ברוחך ביד נביאיך, ולא האזינו.