²⁶ “Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. ²⁷ And ^(A)you murmured in your tents and said, ‘Because the Lord ^(B)hated us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, ^(C)to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. ²⁸ Where are we going up? ^(D)Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, ^(E)“The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen ^(F)the sons of the Anakim there.”’ ²⁹ Then I said to you, ‘Do not be in dread or afraid of them. ³⁰ The Lord your God who goes before you ^(G)will himself 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 ^(H)carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.’ ³² Yet in spite of this word ^(I)you did not believe the Lord your God, ^33 (J)who went before you in the way ^(K)to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night and in the cloud by day, to show you by what way you should go.

⁸ To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because ^(A)we have sinned against you. ^9 (B)To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him ^10 (C)and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by ^(D)his servants the prophets.

^7 (A)Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for ^(B)whatever one sows, that will he also reap. ⁸ For ^(C)the one who sows to his own flesh ^(D)will from the flesh reap corruption, but ^(E)the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. ⁹ And ^(F)let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, ^(G)if we do not give up.