²⁶ But going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up:

¹ Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping.

² And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!

³ Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?

⁴ And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.

⁵¹ You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

²⁴ They were disgusted with the good land; they had no belief in his word;

²⁵ Talking against him secretly in their tents, they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord.

¹⁰ But they went against him, causing grief to his holy spirit: so he was turned against them, and made war on them.