27. And 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 to destroy us.
28. Where can we go up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we are, 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.
30. Yahweh your God, who is going before you, will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
31. and just as he did in the wilderness when you saw that Yahweh your God carried you, just as someone carries his son, all along the way that you traveled until you reached this place.’
32. But through all of this you did not trust in Yahweh your God,
33. who goes before you on your 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.
34. “Then Yahweh heard the sound of your words, and he was angry, and he swore, saying,
35. ‘No one of these men of this evil generation will see the good land that I swore to give to your ancestors,
36. except Caleb, the son of Jephunneh; he himself shall see it, and to him I will give the land upon which he has trodden and to his sons because he followed Yahweh unreservedly.’
37. Even with me Yahweh was angry because of you, saying, ‘Not even you shall enter there.