²⁶But you were not willing to go up, and you rebelled against the command^y of Yahweh your God. ²⁷And you grumbled in your tents, and you said, ‘Because of the hatred of Yahweh toward us he has brought us out from the land of Egypt to give us into the hand of the Amorites^z to destroy us. ²⁸Where can we go up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt,^a saying,^b “The people are greater^c and taller than we are,^d and there are great fortified cities reaching up to heaven, and we saw the sons of the Anakites living there.” ’

²⁹“And so I said to you, ‘Do not be terrified, and do not fear them. ³⁰Yahweh your God, who is going before you,^e will himself^f fight for you, just as^g he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, ³¹and just as he did in the wilderness^h whenⁱ you saw that^j Yahweh your God carried you, just as someone^k carries his son, all along the way that you traveled until you reached^l this place.’ ³²But through all of this you did not trust in Yahweh your God, ³³who goes^m before youⁿ on your^o way, seeking a place for your encampment, in fire at night and in a cloud by day, to show you the way that you should go.^p

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Footnotes

yLiterally “mouth”
zHebrew “Amorite”
aLiterally “caused to melt our hearts”
bLiterally “to say”
cOr “bigger”
dHebrew “than us”
eLiterally “to your faces”
fThe Hebrew pronoun indicates emphasis
gLiterally “like all that”
hOr “desert”
iOr “where”
jOr “how”
kOr “a man”
lLiterally “you came”
mLiterally “is the one going”
nLiterally “before your faces”
oHebrew “the”
pLiterally “you should go in it”