26. You did not want to go into the land, and you refused to obey the Lord your God.
27. You stayed in your tents and grumbled, “The Lord must hate us—he brought us out of Egypt, just so he could hand us over to the Amorites and get rid of us.
28. We are afraid, because the men who explored the land told us that the cities are large, with walls that reach to the sky. The people who live there are taller and stronger than we are, and some of them are Anakim. We have nowhere to go.”
29. Then I said, “Don't worry!
30. The Lord our God will lead the way. He will fight on our side, just as he did when we saw him do all those things to the Egyptians.
31. And you know that the Lord has taken care of us the whole time we've been in the desert, just as you might carry one of your children.”
32. But you still would not trust the Lord,