Numbers 14:14 BBE

¹²  I will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.

¹³  And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the ears of the Egyptians; for by your power you took this people out from among them;

¹⁴  And they will give the news to the people of this land: they have had word that you, Lord, are present with this people, letting yourself be seen face to face, and that your cloud is resting over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

¹⁵  Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say,

¹⁶  Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.