Numbers 14:39

The Message

When Moses told all of this to the People of Israel, they mourned long and hard. But early the next morning they started out for the high hill country, saying, “We’re here; we’re ready—let’s go up and attack the land that God promised us. We sinned, but now we’re ready.”

Cross References

Exodus 33:4

When the people heard this harsh verdict, they were plunged into gloom and wore long faces. No one put on jewelry.

Proverbs 19:3

People ruin their lives by their own stupidity, so why does God always get blamed?

Isaiah 26:16

O God, they begged you for help when they were in trouble, when your discipline was so heavy they could barely whisper a prayer. Like a woman having a baby, writhing in distress, screaming her pain as the baby is being born, That’s how we were because of you, O God. We were pregnant full-term. We writhed in labor but bore no baby. We gave birth to wind. Nothing came of our labor. We produced nothing living. We couldn’t save the world.