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?

³¹ And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see the land which you would not have.

³² But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land.

⁴⁰ How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

³ Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.