¹² Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth, that You should say to me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing father carries the sucking child, to the land which You swore to their fathers [to give them]?

¹³ Where should I get meat to give to all these people? For they weep before me and say, Give us meat, that we may eat.

¹⁴ I am not able to carry all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.