Exo 14:12, Num 14:3, 1Sa 22:5, Pro 3:5-6, Isa 30:15-16, Lam 3:26-27 | ESV | STEP | Is not this what we said to you in Egypt : Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians ? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness .

Exodus 14:12

12 Is not this what ^awe said to you in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

Numbers 14:3

3 Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? ^bOur wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

1 Samuel 22:5

5 Then the prophet ^cGad said to David, “Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah.” So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth.

Proverbs 3:5-6

5 ^dTrust in the Lord with all your heart,
and ^edo not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways ^facknowledge him,
and he ^gwill make straight your paths.

Isaiah 30:15-16

15 For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel,
“In ^hreturning ^{▼▼Or repentance} and ^jrest you shall be saved;
in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”
But you were unwilling, 16 and you said,
“No! We will flee upon ^khorses”;
therefore you shall flee away;
and, “We will ride upon swift steeds”;
therefore your pursuers shall be swift.

Lamentations 3:26-27

26 ^lIt is good that one should wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.
27 ^mIt is good for a man that he bear
the yoke ⁿin his youth.