But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree, and prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, יהוה, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”
Numbers 14:2 - The Scriptures 1998 And all the children of Yisra’ĕ More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! Amplified Bible - Classic Edition All the Israelites grumbled and deplored their situation, accusing Moses and Aaron, to whom the whole congregation said, Would that we had died in Egypt! Or that we had died in this wilderness! American Standard Version (1901) And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness! Common English Bible All the Israelites criticized Moses and Aaron. The entire community said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt or if only we had died in this desert! Catholic Public Domain Version And all the sons of Israel were murmuring against Moses and Aaron, saying: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying: |
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree, and prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, יהוה, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”
And they grumbled in their tents, They did not listen to the voice of יהוה.
And remember His covenant for their sake, And relent according to the greatness of His kindness.
And they said to Mosheh, “Did you take us away to die in the wilderness because there are no graves in Mitsrayim? What is this you have done to us, to bring us up out of Mitsrayim?
And the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Mosheh, and said, “Why did you bring us out of Mitsrayim, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”
“And now, O יהוה, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live!”
And it came to be when the sun came up, that Elohim appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun smote on Yonah’s head, so that he grew faint, and asked for his life to die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
And it came to be, when the people were as complainers, it was evil in the ears of יהוה. And יהוה heard it, and His displeasure burned. And the fire of יהוה burned among them, and consumed those in the outskirts of the camp.
“And if You are doing this to me, please slay me altogether, if I have found favour in Your eyes, and let me not see my evil!”
“We remember the fish which we ate without cost in Mitsrayim, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic,
Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.
for none of these men who have seen My esteem and the signs which I did in Mitsrayim and in the wilderness, and have tried Me now these ten times, and have disobeyed My voice,
“Is it little that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you would also seize total rule over us?
Now there was no water for the congregation and they assembled against Mosheh and against Aharon.
And the people contended with Mosheh and spoke, saying, “If only we had died when our brothers died before יהוה!
“Why have you brought up the assembly of יהוה into this wilderness, that we and our livestock should die here?
And the people spoke against Elohim and against Mosheh, “Why have you brought us up out of Mitsrayim to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our being loathes this light bread.”
neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
and grumbled in your tents, and said, ‘Because יהוה was hating us, He has brought us out of the land of Mitsrayim to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
For who, having heard, rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Mitsrayim, led by Mosheh?
These are grumblers, complainers, who walk according to their own lusts, and their mouth speaks proudly, admiring faces of others for the sake of gain.