Numbers 17:12-13

Behold we die, we perish Words of consternation, arising from the remembrance of these severe and repeated judgments, from the threatening of death upon any succeeding murmurings, and from the sense of their own guilt and weakness, which made them fear lest they should relapse into the same miscarriages, and thereby bring the vengeance of God upon themselves. Near Nearer than he should do; an error which we may easily commit. Will God proceed with us according to his strict justice, till all the people be cut off?