27 You stayed in your tents and grumbled, “The LORD must hate us — he brought us out of Egypt, just so he could hand us over to the Amorites and get rid of us.

28 We are afraid, because the men who explored the land told us that the cities are large, with walls that reach to the sky. The people who live there are taller and stronger than we are, [9] and some of them are Anakim. [10] We have nowhere to go.”

29 Then I said, “Don’t worry!