Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? (A)Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

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(A)They bend their tongue like a bow;
    falsehood and not truth has grown strong[a] in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
    (B)and they do not know me, declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:3 Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong

40 How often they (A)rebelled against him in the wilderness
    and (B)grieved him in (C)the desert!

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31 (A)But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that (B)you have rejected. 32 But as for you, (C)your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

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