And
they
said unto them,
The LORD
look upon you,
and judge;
because
ye have made
our savour
to be abhorred
in the eyes
of Pharaoh,
and in the eyes
of his servants,
to put
a sword
in their hand
to slay us.
And Moses
returned
unto the LORD,
and said,
LORD,
wherefore hast
thou so evil
entreated
this people?
why is it
that thou
hast sent me?
For since
I came
to Pharaoh
to speak
in thy name,
he hath done evil
to this people;
neither hast
thou delivered
thy people
at all.
And the people
murmured
against Moses,
saying,
What
shall we drink?
And the whole congregation
of the children
of Israel
murmured
against Moses
and Aaron
in the wilderness:
And the children
of Israel
said unto them,
Would
to God
we had died
by the hand
of the LORD
in the land
of Egypt,
when we
sat
by the flesh pots,
and
when
we did eat bread
to the full;
for ye
have brought
us forth
into this wilderness,
to kill
this whole
assembly with hunger.
And Moses said,
This shall be,
when the LORD
shall give
you
in the evening flesh
to eat,
and
in the morning bread
to the full;
for that
the LORD heareth your murmurings
which ye
murmur against him:
and
what are we?
your murmurings
are not against us,
but against the LORD.
I have heard
the murmurings
of the children
of Israel:
speak unto them,
saying,
At even
ye shall eat flesh,
and
in the morning
ye shall be filled
with bread;
and
ye shall know that
I am the LORD
your God.
And the LORD
spake unto Moses
and unto Aaron,
saying,
How long
shall
I bear
with this evil congregation,
which murmur
against me?
I have heard
the murmurings
of the children
of Israel,
which they
murmur against me.
Say unto them,
As truly as I live,
saith the LORD,
as ye
have spoken
in mine ears,
so will
I do to you:
Your carcases
shall fall
in this wilderness;
and all
that were numbered
of you,
according to
your whole number,
from twenty years old
and upward which
have murmured against me.
Doubtless
ye shall not come
into the land,
concerning which
I sware to make
you dwell
therein,
save Caleb
the son
of Jephunneh,
and Joshua
the son
of Nun.
But your little ones,
which ye
said
should be a prey,
them will
I bring in,
and
they shall know
the land
which ye
have despised.
But as for you,
your carcases,
they shall fall
in this wilderness.
And your children
shall wander
in the wilderness forty years,
and bear
your whoredoms,
until your carcases
be wasted
in the wilderness.
After the number
of the days
in which
ye searched
the land,
even forty days,
each day
for a year,
shall
ye bear
your iniquities,
even forty years,
and ye
shall know
my breach
of promise.
I the LORD
have said,
I will surely do it
unto all
this evil congregation,
that are gathered together
against me:
in this wilderness
they shall be consumed,
and
there
they shall die.
And the men,
which Moses
sent to search
the land,
who returned,
and made all
the congregation
to murmur against him,
by bringing
up a slander
upon the land,
Even those men that
did bring
up the evil report
upon the land,
died
by the plague
before the LORD.
And they
rose up
before Moses,
with certain
of the children
of Israel,
two hundred
and fifty princes
of the assembly,
famous
in the congregation,
men of renown:
And
they gathered themselves
together
against Moses
and against Aaron,
and
said unto them,
Ye take too much
upon you,
seeing all
the congregation
are holy,
every one
of them,
and the LORD
is among them:
wherefore
then lift
ye
up yourselves
above the congregation
of the LORD?
Is it
a small thing
that thou
hast brought us up
out of a land
that floweth with milk
and honey,
to kill us
in the wilderness,
except thou
make thyself altogether
a prince
over us?
Moreover thou
hast not brought us
into a land
that floweth with milk
and honey,
or given us inheritance
of fields
and vineyards:
wilt thou put out
the eyes
of these men?
we will not come up.
But on the morrow all
the congregation
of the children of Israel
murmured
against Moses
and against Aaron,
saying,
Ye have killed
the people
of the LORD.
And there was
no water
for the congregation:
and
they gathered themselves
together
against Moses
and against Aaron.
And the people chode
with Moses,
and spake,
saying,
Would God that
we had died
when our brethren
died
before the LORD!
And
why have
ye brought
up the congregation
of the LORD
into this wilderness,
that we
and our cattle
should die there?
Are the consolations
of God small
with thee?
is there
any secret thing
with thee?
Why doth
thine heart
carry thee away?
and what
do
thy eyes
wink at,
That thou
turnest
thy spirit
against God,
and lettest
such words
go out of thy mouth?
Behold,
in this
thou art
not just:
I will answer thee,
that God
is greater than man.
Why dost
thou strive
against him?
for he
giveth not account
of any
of his matters.
For he
addeth rebellion
unto his sin,
he clappeth
his hands
among us,
and multiplieth
his words
against God.
Fret not thyself
because
of evildoers,
neither be
thou envious
against the workers
of iniquity.
But
thou
hast cast off,
and put us
to shame;
and goest not forth
with our armies.
Thou makest us
to turn
back from the enemy:
and
they
which hate us
spoil
for themselves.
Thou hast given us like sheep
appointed
for meat;
and hast scattered us
among the heathen.
Thou sellest
thy people
for nought,
and dost not increase
thy wealth
by their price.
Thou makest us
a reproach
to our neighbours,
a scorn
and a derision
to them
that are round
about us.
Thou makest us
a byword
among the heathen,
a shaking
of the head
among the people.
My confusion
is continually
before me,
and the shame
of my face
hath covered me,
For the voice
of him that
reproacheth and blasphemeth;
by reason
of the enemy
and avenger.
All this
is come upon us;
yet have
we not forgotten thee,
neither have
we dealt falsely
in thy covenant.
Our heart
is not turned back,
neither have
our steps
declined
from thy way;
Though thou
hast sore
broken us
in the place
of dragons,
and covered us
with the shadow
of death.
If we
have forgotten the name
of our God,
or stretched out
our hands
to a strange god;
Shall not
God search
this out?
for he knoweth
the secrets
of the heart.
Yea,
for thy sake
are
we killed all
the day long;
we are counted
as sheep
for the slaughter.
Awake,
why sleepest thou,
O Lord?
arise,
cast us not off
for ever.
Wherefore hidest
thou
thy face,
and forgettest
our affliction
and our oppression?
For our soul
is bowed down
to the dust:
our belly
cleaveth unto the earth.
Arise
for our help,
and redeem us
for thy mercies' sake.
Verily
I have cleansed
my heart
in vain,
and washed my
hands in innocency.
For all the day long
have
I been plagued,
and chastened every morning.
If I say,
I will speak thus;
behold,
I should offend
against the generation
of thy children.
When I
thought
to know this,
it was too painful
for me;
Until I
went into the sanctuary
of God;
then understood
I their end.
Surely thou
didst set them
in slippery places:
thou castedst
them down
into destruction.
How are
they brought
into desolation,
as in a moment!
they are utterly consumed
with terrors.
As a dream
when one awaketh;
so,
O Lord,
when
thou awakest,
thou shalt despise
their image.
Thus my heart
was grieved,
and
I was pricked
in my reins.
So foolish
was I,
and ignorant:
I was as a beast
before thee.
And
they sinned yet more
against him
by provoking
the most High
in the wilderness.
And
they tempted God
in their heart
by asking meat
for their lust.
Yea,
they spake against God;
they said,
Can God
furnish a table
in the wilderness?
Behold,
he smote the rock,
that the waters
gushed out,
and the streams overflowed;
can
he give bread also?
can
he provide flesh
for his people?
Therefore the LORD
heard this,
and was wroth:
so a fire
was kindled
against Jacob,
and anger
also came up
against Israel;
The foolishness
of man
perverteth his way:
and his heart
fretteth against the LORD.
Say not thou,
What
is
the cause
that the former days
were
better
than these?
for thou
dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
Woe is me,
my mother,
that thou
hast borne me a man
of strife
and a man
of contention
to the whole earth!
I have neither lent
on usury,
nor men
have lent to me
on usury;
yet every one
of them doth curse me.
Wherefore doth
a living man complain,
a man
for the punishment
of his sins?
Ye have said,
It is vain
to serve God:
and
what profit
is it that
we have kept
his ordinance,
and that
we have walked mournfully
before the LORD
of hosts?
But Martha
was cumbered
about much serving,
and came to him,
and said,
Lord,
dost
thou not care
that my sister
hath left me
to serve alone?
bid her
therefore that
she help me.
Thou wilt say
then unto me, Why
doth
he yet find fault?
For who
hath resisted
his will?
Nay but,
O man,
who art
thou
that repliest against God?
Shall
the thing formed
say
to him
that formed it,
Why hast
thou made me thus?
Neither murmur ye,
as some of them
also murmured,
and were destroyed
of the destroyer.
Do all things
without murmurings
and disputings:
Grudge not one
against another,
brethren,
lest
ye be condemned:
behold,
the judge
standeth before the door.
These are murmurers,
complainers,
walking
after their own lusts;
and their mouth
speaketh
great swelling words,
having men's persons
in admiration
because of advantage.