¹² Why should ^(A)the Egyptians speak, saying, ‘With evil intent He brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your burning anger and relent concerning doing harm to Your people.

²⁸ lest the land from which You brought us say, “^(A)Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which He had ^[a]promised them and because He hated them He has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.”