^26 (A)“Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God; ²⁷ and you ^(B)complained in your tents, and said, ‘Because the Lord ^(C)hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. ²⁸ Where can we go up? Our brethren have ^[a]discouraged our hearts, saying, ^(D)“The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the ^(E)Anakim there.” ’

²⁹ “Then I said to you, ‘Do not be terrified, ^(F)or afraid of them. ^30 (G)The Lord your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, ³¹ and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a ^(H)man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’ ³² Yet, for all that, ^(I)you did not believe the Lord your God, ^33 (J)who went in the way before you ^(K)to search out a place for you to pitch your tents, to show you the way you should go, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day.

^27 (A)for I know your rebellion and your ^(B)stiff neck. If today, while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the Lord, then how much more after my death?