^5 (A)We remember the fish which we used to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic, ⁶ but now ^(B)our ^[a]appetite is dried up. There is nothing at all ^[b]to look at except this manna.”

¹² Then all the Jews ^(A)returned from all the places to which they had been banished and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gathered in wine and summer fruit in great abundance.

Arrogant Words

¹³ “Your words have been strong against Me,” says Yahweh. “But you say, ‘What have we spoken against You?’ ¹⁴ You have said, ‘It is ^(A)worthless to serve God; and what ^(B)gain is it that we have kept His charge and that we have walked in mourning before Yahweh of hosts? ¹⁵ So now we ^(C)call the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up, but they also test God and ^(D)escape.’”