Deuteronomy 1:26-33

26“Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of Adonai your God.

27In your tents you grumbled and said: ‘Because Adonai hates us, He has brought us out from the land of Egypt to hand us over to the Amorites, to destroy us!

28Where are we going? Our brothers have discouraged our hearts saying, “The people are greater and taller than we are! The cities are great and fortified up to the heavens! Besides, we have even seen the children of Anakim there!”’

29“Then I said to you, ‘Don’t tremble or be afraid of them.

30Adonai your God, who goes before you, He Himself will fight for you—just as He did for you in Egypt before your own eyes,

31and in the wilderness, where you saw how Adonai your God carried you as a man carries his son, everywhere you went until you came to this place.’

32Yet for all this you did not trust in Adonai your God—

33the One who goes before you on the way to scout out a place for you to camp and to show you the way you should go, in fire by night and in the cloud by day.