Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me - though warned by the judgment on their fathers, the next generation also rebelled against God. The "kindness of Israel's youth, and love of her espousals in the wilderness" (Jeremiah 2:2-3), were only comparative (the corruption in later times being more general), and confined to the minority: as a whole, Israel at no time fully served God. Indeed, the "kindness and love" mentioned there refer to God's love and kindness to Israel, rather than Israel's to God. The "children" it was that fell into the fearful apostasy on the plains of Moab, at the close of the wilderness sojourn, when "the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab, and bowed down to their gods" (Numbers 25:1-2; Deuteronomy 31:27).