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

²⁸ Otherwise, the people of the land from which You brought us will say, “^(A)Since the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which He had ^[a]promised them, and since He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness!”