¹³ And the Lord's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them ^(A)wander in the wilderness forty years, until ^(B)all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was gone.

³⁰ The Lord your God who goes before you ^(A)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 ^(B)carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.’

² And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you ^(A)these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, ^(B)testing you ^(C)to know what was in your heart, ^(D)whether you would keep his commandments or not.

¹⁵ who ^(A)led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, ^(B)with its fiery serpents and scorpions ^(C)and thirsty ground where there was no water, ^(D)who brought you water out of the flinty rock, ¹⁶ who fed you in the wilderness with ^(E)manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, ^(F)to do you good in the end.

¹⁴ And David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country ^(A)of the wilderness of ^(B)Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.