Why is Jehovah bringing us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become prey? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?

So they said to one another, Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.

And Jehovah said to Moses: How long will these people reject Me? And how long will they not believe Me, with all the signs which I have done among them?

And Moses said, Why do you transgress the mouth of Jehovah? For it will not prosper.

Moreover you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up!

Then they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His Word,

but murmured in their tents, and did not heed the voice of Jehovah.

Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one pays attention,

See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from the One speaking from Heaven,

and forgot His works and His wonders that He had shown them.

They did not remember His hand, the day when He ransomed them from the enemy,

when He brought to pass His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the fields of Zoan;

For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abounding in mercy unto all those who call upon You.

But You, O Lord, are a Mighty God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth.

Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; they did not remember the multitude of Your mercies, but rebelled by the sea; the Red Sea.

They soon forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel,

Do you not yet understand, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up?

How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread, but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

For this reason I will not be negligent to always remind you of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth.

knowing that shortly I must put off my tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ made known to me.

So they said to one another, Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.

whom our fathers did not desire to obey, but thrust him away. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,

Jehovah is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but not acquitting to leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation.

Pardon the iniquity of this people, I pray, according to the greatness of Your mercy, just as You have borne this people, from Egypt even until now.

For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abounding in mercy unto all those who call upon You.

But You, O Lord, are a Mighty God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth.

But there is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared.

Who is a Mighty God like You, forgiving iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His possession? His anger does not remain strong forever, for He delights in mercy.

He will return and have compassion on us; He will subdue our iniquities. And You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

And Jehovah passed before him and proclaimed: Jehovah, Jehovah Mighty God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in goodness and truth,

keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons and the sons' sons to the third and the fourth generation.

But He, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them; yea, many a time He turned His anger away, and did not stir up all His wrath;

Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us according to our iniquities.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.

And then the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place is noticed no more.

to such as keep His covenant, and to those who remember His Commandments to do them.

Jehovah is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and great in kindness.

Jehovah is good to all, and His compassions are over all His works.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Jehovah, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.

So, tear your heart, and not your garments; and return to Jehovah your God. For He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and He has compassion concerning the evil.

For He says to Moses, I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.

to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved.

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins, according to the riches of His grace

And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake My people Israel.

Jehovah our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He not leave us nor forsake us,

Many times He delivered them; but they rebelled in their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

and remembered His covenant toward them, and was moved to compassion according to the abundance of His mercies.