Numbers 20:3-5

New American Standard Bible 1995

^3 (A)The people thus contended with Moses and spoke, saying, “^(B)If only we had perished ^(C)when our brothers perished before the Lord! ^4 (D)Why then have you brought the Lord’s assembly into this wilderness, for us and our beasts to die ^[a]here? ⁵ Why have you made us come up from Egypt, to bring us in to this wretched place? ^(E)It is not a place of ^[b]grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, nor is there water to drink.”