Deuteronomy 1:26–33

^26z“Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God; ²⁷and you ^acomplained in your tents, and said, ‘Because the Lord ^bhates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. ²⁸Where can we go up? Our brethren have ⁹discouraged our hearts, saying, ^c“The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the ^dAnakim there.” ’

²⁹“Then I said to you, ‘Do not be terrified, ^eor afraid of them. ^30fThe Lord your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, ³¹and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a ^gman carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’ ³²Yet, for all that, ^hyou did not believe the Lord your God, ³³ⁱwho went in the way before you ^jto search out a place for you to pitch your tents, to show you the way you should go, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day.