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?

But your little ones, whom you said would be prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.

Butter and honey He shall eat until He knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.

For before the Child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you loathe shall be forsaken by both its kings.

and should I not have pity on Nineveh, the great city in which are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between the right and the left hand, and many cattle?

(for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls),

among whom also we all formerly conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others;