Exodus 16:3

Conservative English Version

"We wish the LORD had killed us in Egypt. When we lived there, we could at least sit down and eat all the bread and meat we wanted. But you have brought us out here into this desert, where we are going to starve."

Cross References

2 Samuel 18:33

David started trembling. Then he went up to the room above the city gate to cry. As he went, he kept saying, "My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I could have died instead of you! Absalom, my son, my son!"

Job 3:1

Finally, Job cursed the day of his birth

Job 3:10

because it let me be born into a world of trouble.

Job 3:20

Why does God let me live when life is miserable and so bitter?

Psalm 107:5

You were hungry and thirsty and about to give up.

Psalm 78:19

They challenged God by saying, "Can God provide food out here in the desert?

Psalm 78:25

He gave them more than enough, and each one of them ate this special food.

Exodus 14:11

They also complained to Moses, "Wasn't there enough room in Egypt to bury us? Is that why you brought us out here to die in the desert? Why did you bring us out of Egypt anyway?

Exodus 17:3

But the people were thirsty and kept on complaining, "Moses, did you bring us out of Egypt just to let us and our families and our animals die of thirst?"

Exodus 2:23

After the death of the king of Egypt, the Israelites still complained because they were forced to be slaves. They cried out for help,

Exodus 5:21

Then the men said, "We hope the LORD will punish both of you for making the king and his officials hate us. Now they even have an excuse to kill us."

Jeremiah 2:6

Your ancestors refused to ask for my help, though I had rescued them from Egypt and led them through a treacherous, barren desert, where no one lives or dares to travel.

Jeremiah 42:14

We are going to Egypt, where there is plenty of food and no danger of war."

Jeremiah 44:17

We have promised to worship the goddess Astarte, the Queen of Heaven, and that is exactly what we are going to do. We will burn incense and offer sacrifices of wine to her, just as we, our ancestors, our kings, and our leaders did when we lived in Jerusalem and the other towns of Judah. We had plenty of food back then. We were well off, and nothing bad ever happened to us.

Lamentations 4:9

Being killed with a sword is better than slowly starving to death.

Numbers 11:15

If this is the way you're going to treat me, just kill me now and end my miserable life!

Numbers 11:20

(SEE 11:19)

Numbers 14:2

and complained to Moses and Aaron, "We wish we had died in Egypt or somewhere out here in the desert!

Numbers 14:3

Is the LORD leading us into Canaan, just to have us killed and our women and children captured? We'd be better off in Egypt."

Numbers 16:13

It's bad enough that you took us from our rich farmland in Egypt to let us die here in the desert. Now you also want to boss us around!

Numbers 16:41

The next day the people of Israel again complained against Moses and Aaron, "The two of you killed some of the LORD's people!"

Numbers 21:5

that they complained against God and said to Moses, "Did you bring us out of Egypt, just to let us die in the desert? There's no water out here, and we can't stand this awful food!"

Acts 26:29

Paul answered, "Whether it takes a short time or a long time, I wish you and everyone else who hears me today would become just like me! Except, of course, for these chains."

1 Corinthians 4:8

Are you already satisfied? Are you now rich? Have you become kings while we are still nobodies? I wish you were kings. Then we could have a share in your kingdom.

2 Corinthians 11:1

Please put up with a little of my foolishness.

Deuteronomy 28:67

Each morning you will wake up to such terrible sights that you will say, "I wish it were night!" But at night you will be terrified and say, "I wish it were day!"

Deuteronomy 8:3

so he made you go hungry. Then he gave you manna, a kind of food that you and your ancestors had never even heard about. The LORD was teaching you that people need more than food to live--they need every word that the LORD has spoken.

Joshua 7:7

Then Joshua said: Our LORD, did you bring us across the Jordan River just so the Amorites could destroy us? This wouldn't have happened if we had agreed to stay on the other side of the Jordan.