^12 (A)Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, ‘He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and ^(B)relent from this harm to Your people.

²¹ And the Lord ^(A)would separate him from all the tribes of Israel for adversity, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this Book of the ^(B)Law,

²⁴ All nations would say, ^(A)‘Why has the Lord done so to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?’