²⁷ You were peevish and discontented in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, He brought us forth out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.

²⁸ To what are we going up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, The people are bigger and taller than we are; the cities are great and fortified to the heavens. And moreover we have seen the [giantlike] sons of the Anakim there.

²⁹ Then I said to you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.

³⁰ The Lord your God Who goes before you, He will fight for you just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

³¹ And in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God bore you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.

³² Yet in spite of this word you did not believe (trust, rely on, and remain steadfast to) the Lord your God,

³³ Who went in the way before you to search out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.

³⁴ And the Lord heard your words, and was angered and He swore,

³⁵ Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land which I swore to give to your fathers,

²⁴ Then they spurned and despised the pleasant and desirable land [Canaan]; they believed not His word [neither trusting in, relying on, nor holding to it];

²⁵ But they murmured in their tents and hearkened not to the voice of the Lord.

² Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and you are on earth; therefore let your words be few.