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.
38. Joshua, the son of Nun, your assistant, will go there; encourage him because he will cause Israel to inherit it.
39. And your little children, who you thought shall become plunder, and your sons, who do not today know good or bad, shall themselves go there, and I will give it to them, and they shall take possession of it.
40. But you turn and set out in the direction of the wilderness by way of the Red Sea.’
41. “You replied and said to me, ‘We have sinned against Yahweh, and now we will go up and fight according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us’; and so each man fastened on his battle gear, and you regarded it as easy to go up into the hill country.
42. So Yahweh said to me, ‘Say to them, “You shall not go up, and you shall not fight because I am not in your midst; you will be defeated before your enemies.” ’