28 Where can we go? Our brothers have discouraged us, saying: The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, fortified to the heavens. We also saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’
29 “So I said to you: Don’t be terrified or afraid of them!
30 The Lord your God who goes before you will fight for you, just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt.
31 And you saw in the wilderness how the Lord your God carried you as a man carries his son all along the way you traveled until you reached this place.
32 But in spite of this you did not trust the Lord your God,
33 who went before you on the journey to seek out a place for you to camp. He went in the fire by night and in the cloud by day to guide you on the road you were to travel.
34 “When the Lord heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath: