¹² Why should ^(A)the Egyptians speak, saying, ‘With evil intent He brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your burning anger and relent concerning doing harm to Your people.

¹⁶ ‘Because Yahweh ^(A)was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore to them, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.’