And wherefore did ye cause us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us into this wretched place?—not a place of seeds, and figs, and vines and pomegranates, even water, is there none to drink.
Certainly not into a land flowing with milk and honey, hast thou brought us, nor given unto us an inheritance of field and vineyard,—The eyes of those men, wilt thou dig out? We will not come up.
Neither said they, Where is Yahweh, Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,—Who led us Through the desert, Through a land of wastes and clefts, Through a land of parched places and of death-shade, Through a land, Along which no man had passed, And in which no son of earth dwelt?
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem saying—Thus saith Yahweh, I remember in thy behalf, the lovingkindness of thy youthful days, The love of thy bridal estate,—Thy coming out after me, Through the desert, Through a land, not sown:
who caused thee to journey through the great and terrible desert, of fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty wastes where was no water,—who brought forth for thee water out of the flinty rock;
Aaron shall be withdrawn unto his kinsfolk, fur he shall not enter into the land. which I have given unto the sons of Israel,—because ye spurned my bidding, at the waters of Meribah.
because ye resisted my bidding—in the desert of Zin when the assembly contended,—that ye should hallow me regarding the waters, before their eyes,—the same, were the waters of Meribah, of Kadesh in the desert of Zin.