28. What shall we meet with up there? Our men have made our hearts melt by saying, ‘The people are bigger and taller than we, and their cities are large and fortified to the sky; besides, we saw the Anakim there.’”
29. But I said to you, “Have no dread or fear of them.
30. The Lord, your God, who goes before you, is the one who will fight for you, just as he acted with you before your very eyes in Egypt,
31. as well as in the wilderness, where you saw how the Lord, your God, carried you, as one carries his own child, all along your journey until you arrived at this place.”
32. Despite this, you would not trust the Lord, your God,
33. who journeys before you to find you a place to camp—by night in the fire, and by day in the cloud, to show you the way to go.
34. When the Lord heard your words, he was angry, and took an oath:
35. Not a single one of this evil generation shall look upon the good land I swore to give to your ancestors,