Lord, use your power and remove\par bad people from the \{land of\} the living.\par
Numbers 11:5 - Easy To Read Version We remember the fish we ate in Egypt. That fish cost us nothing. We also had good vegetables like cucumbers, melons, chives, onions, and garlic. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt and without cost, the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic. American Standard Version (1901) We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic: Common English Bible We remember the fish we ate in Egypt for free, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. Catholic Public Domain Version We remember the fish that we ate freely in Egypt; we call to mind the cucumbers, and melons, and leeks, and onions, and garlic. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt free cost. The cucumbers come into our mind, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic. |
Lord, use your power and remove\par bad people from the \{land of\} the living.\par
The people said, “It would have been better if the Lord had just killed us in the land of Egypt. At least there we had plenty to eat. We had all the food we needed. But now you have brought us out here into this desert. So he can make us die from hunger.”
The Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem) is now like an empty tent left in a field of grapes. It is like an old house left in a field of cucumbers. It is like a city that has been defeated by enemies.”
And you might say, ‘No, we will go and live in Egypt. We will not be bothered with war in that place. We will not hear the trumpets of war. And in Egypt we will not be hungry.’
But then we stopped making sacrifices to the Queen of Heaven. And we stopped pouring out drink offerings to her. Since we have stopped doing those things in worship to her, we have had problems. Our people have been killed by swords and hunger.”
The people of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron. All the people came together and said to Moses and Aaron, “We should have died in Egypt or in the desert. {That would have been better than being killed in this new land.}
The way these people live is leading them to destruction. They don’t serve God. Those people live only to please themselves. They do shameful things, and they are proud of those things. They think only about earthly things.