Exodus 16:3

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the flesh pots, and ate bread to the full. Why have you brought us into this desert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine?

Cross References

Exodus 17:3

So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured against Moses, saying: Why didst thou make us go forth out of Egypt, to kill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst?

Lamentations 4:9

Teth. It was better with them that were slain by the sword than with them that died with hunger: for these pined away being consumed for want of the fruits of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:67

In the morning thou shalt say: Who will grant me evening? And at evening: Who will grant me morning? For the fearfulness of thy heart, wherewith thou shalt be terrified, and for those things which thou shalt see with thy eyes.

Jeremiah 2:6

And they have not said: Where is the Lord that made us come up out of the land of Egypt? that led us through the desert, through a land uninhabited and unpassable, through a land of drought, and the image of death, through a land wherein no man walked, nor any man dwelt?

Numbers 14:2

And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying:

1 Corinthians 4:8

You are now full; you are now become rich; you reign without us; and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

Joshua 7:7

And Josue said: Alas, O Lord God, why wouldst thou bring this people over the river Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and to destroy us? Would God, we had stayed beyond the Jordan as we began!

2 Corinthians 11:1

Would to God you could bear with some little of my folly: but do bear with me.

Acts 26:29

And Paul said: I would to God, that both in a little and in much, not only thou, but also all that hear me, this day, should become such as I also am, except these bands.

Job 3:20

Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?

Job 3:10

Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.

Job 3:1

After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.

2 Samuel 18:33

The king therefore being much moved, went up to the high chamber over the gate, and wept. And as he went he spoke in this manner: My son Absalom, Absalom my son! Would to God that I might die for thee, Absalom my son, my son Absalom!

Deuteronomy 8:3

He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food, which neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.

Numbers 16:41

The following day all the multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying: You have killed the people of the Lord.

Numbers 16:13

Is it a small matter to thee, that thou hast brought us out of a land that flowed with milk and honey, to kill us in the desert, except thou rule also like a lord over us?

Numbers 11:15

But if it seem unto thee otherwise, I beseech thee to kill me: and let me find grace in thy eyes, that I be not afflicted with so great evils.

Exodus 5:21

And they said to them: The Lord see and judge, because you have made our savour to stink before Pharao and his servants; and you have given him a sword to kill us.

Exodus 2:23

Now after a long time the king of Egypt died. And the children of Israel groaning cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works.

Numbers 14:3

Would God that we had died in Egypt! And would God we may die in this vast wilderness, and that the Lord may not bring us into this land: lest we fall by the sword, and our wives and children be led away captives. Is it not better to return into Egypt?

Jeremiah 42:14

Saying: No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war nor hear the sound of the trumpet nor suffer hunger; and there we will dwell.

Jeremiah 44:17

But we will certainly do every word that shall proceed out of our own mouth, to sacrifice to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink-offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, our kings, and our princes in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we were filled with bread, and it was well with us, and we saw no evil.

Exodus 14:11

And they said to Moses: Perhaps there were no graves in Egypt: therefore thou hast brought us to die in the wilderness. Why wouldst thou do this, to lead us out of Egypt?

Numbers 11:20

But even for a month of days, till it come out at your nostrils, and become loathsome to you. Because you have cast off the Lord, who is in the midst of you, and have wept before him, saying: Why came we out of Egypt?

Numbers 21:5

And speaking against God end Moses, they said: Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor have we any waters: our soul now loatheth this very light food.

Psalm 107:5

For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth even unto the clouds.