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

¹⁶ ‘Because the Lord ^(A)could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.’