20 He said, “I will hide my face from them;(A)
I will see what will become of them,
for they are a perverse generation—
unfaithful children.

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Then they would not be like their ancestors,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation whose heart was not loyal
and whose spirit was not faithful to God.(A)

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31 Evil generation,(A)
pay attention to the word of the Lord!
Have I been a wilderness to Israel
or a land of dense darkness?(B)
Why do my people claim,
“We will go where we want;[a]
we will no longer come to you”?

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Footnotes

  1. 2:31 Or “We have taken control, or “We can roam

An Unresponsive Generation

16 “To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to other children:

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39 He answered them,(A) “An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.(B)

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An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of[a] Jonah.”(A) Then he left them and went away.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:4 Other mss add the prophet

Jesus came up, touched them, and said, “Get up; don’t be afraid.”(A)

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40 With many other words he testified and strongly urged them, saying, “Be saved from this corrupt[a] generation!” (A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:40 Or crooked, or twisted

15 so that you may be blameless(A) and pure,(B) children of God who are faultless(C) in a crooked(D) and perverted(E) generation,(F) among whom you shine like stars in the world,

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