26 “But you were not willing to go up. You rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. 27 You grumbled in your tentsv and said, ‘The Lord brought us out of the land of Egypt to hand us over to the Amorites in order to destroy us, because he hates us. 28 Where can we go? Our brothers have made us lose heart,C,w saying: The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, fortified to the heavens.a We also saw the descendants of the Anakimb there.’

29 “So I said to you: Don’t be terrified or afraid of them!c 30 The Lord your God who goes before youd will fight for you,e just as you saw him do for you in Egypt. 31 And you saw in the wilderness how the Lord your God carried you as a man carries his son all along the way you traveled until you reached this place. 32 But in spite of this you did not trust the Lord your God, 33 who went before you on the journey to seek out a place for you to camp. He went in the fire by night and in the cloud by day to guide you on the road you were to travel.