²⁸ Otherwise, ·Egypt [^Lthe land from which you brought us] will say, ‘It was because the Lord was not able to take his people into the land he promised them, and it was because he hated them that he took them into the ·desert [wilderness] to kill them.’ ²⁹ But they are your people, Lord, your ·own people [^Linheritance], whom you brought out of Egypt with your great power and ·strength [^Loutstretched arm].”