27. You were peevish and discontented in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, He brought us forth out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.
28. To what are we going up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, The people are bigger and taller than we are; the cities are great and fortified to the heavens. And moreover we have seen the [giantlike] sons of the Anakim there.
29. Then I said to you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
30. The Lord your God Who goes before you, He will 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 bore you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.
32. Yet in spite of this word you did not believe (trust, rely on, and remain steadfast to) the Lord your God,
33. Who went in the way before you to search out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.
34. And the Lord heard your words, and was angered and He swore,
35. Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land which I swore to give to your fathers,
36. Except [Joshua, of course, and] Caleb son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land upon which he has walked, because he has wholly followed the Lord.
37. The Lord was angry with me also for your sakes, and said, You also shall not enter Canaan.
38. But Joshua son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
39. Moreover, your little ones whom you said would become a prey, and your children who at this time cannot discern between good and evil, they shall enter Canaan, and to them I will give it and they shall possess it.
40. But as for you, turn and journey into the wilderness by way of the Red Sea.
41. Then you said to me, We have sinned against the Lord. We will go up and fight, as the Lord our God commanded us. And you girded on every man his battle weapons, and thought it a simple matter to go up into the hill country.
42. And the Lord said to me, Say to them, Do not go up or fight, for I am not among you–lest you be dangerously hurt by your enemies.
43. So I spoke to you, and you would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord, and were presumptuous and went up into the hill country.
44. Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do and struck you down in Seir as far as Hormah.