¹² Why should ^(A)the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘With evil motives He brought them out, to kill them on the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your burning anger and relent of doing harm to Your people.

¹⁶ ‘Since the Lord ^(A)could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, He slaughtered them in the wilderness.’