Deuteronomy 1:40-42

Modern English Version

⁴⁰ But as for you, turn around, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”

⁴¹ Then you answered and said to me, “We have sinned against the Lord. We will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us.” So each of you girded on his weapons of war and you thought it easy to go up into the hill country.

⁴² Then the Lord said to me, “Tell them, ‘Do not go up nor fight, for I am not among you; lest you be defeated before your enemies.’ ”