26 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron again, saying, 27 “How long shall I put up with this evil congregation who are (A)grumbling against Me? I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel which they are [a]voicing against Me. 28 Say to them, ‘(B)As I live,’ declares the Lord, ‘just as (C)you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you; 29 (D)your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, all (E)your [b]numbered men according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me. 30 By no means will you come into the land where I [c]swore to settle you, (F)except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. 31 (G)Your children, however, whom you said would become plunder—I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected. 32 (H)But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness. 33 Also, your sons will be shepherds in the wilderness for (I)forty years, and they will [d]suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your bodies perish in the wilderness. 34 In accordance with the (J)number of days that you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall suffer the punishment for your [e]guilt a year, that is, forty years, and you will know My opposition. 35 (K)I, the Lord, have spoken, I certainly will do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. They shall be worn out in this wilderness, and there they shall die.’”

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  1. Numbers 14:27 Lit complaining
  2. Numbers 14:29 Lit mustered
  3. Numbers 14:30 Lit raised My hand
  4. Numbers 14:33 Lit bear
  5. Numbers 14:34 Or wrongdoings

You (A)turn mortals back into dust
And say, “Return, you sons of mankind.”
For (B)a thousand years in Your sight
Are like (C)yesterday when it passes by,
[a]Or like a (D)watch in the night.
You (E)have [b]swept them away like a flood, they [c](F)fall asleep;
In the morning they are like (G)grass that [d]sprouts anew.
In the morning it (H)flourishes and [e]sprouts anew;
Toward evening it (I)wilts and (J)withers away.

For we have been (K)consumed by Your anger,
And we have been terrified by Your wrath.
You have (L)placed our guilty deeds before You,
Our (M)hidden sins in the light of Your presence.
For (N)all our days have dwindled away in Your fury;
We have finished our years like a [f]sigh.
10 As for the days of our [g]life, [h]they contain seventy years,
Or if due to strength, (O)eighty years,
Yet their pride is only (P)trouble and tragedy;
For it quickly passes, and we (Q)disappear.

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  1. Psalm 90:4 Or And
  2. Psalm 90:5 Or flooded
  3. Psalm 90:5 Lit become asleep
  4. Psalm 90:5 Or passes away
  5. Psalm 90:6 Or passes away
  6. Psalm 90:9 Or whisper
  7. Psalm 90:10 Lit years
  8. Psalm 90:10 Lit in them are

Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased; for their dead bodies were (A)spread out in the wilderness.

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