^5 (A)We remember the fish which we used to eat for free in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; ⁶ but now ^(B)our ^[a]appetite is gone. There is nothing at all ^[b]to look at except this manna!”

¹² Then all the Jews ^(A)returned from all the places to which they had been scattered and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruit in great abundance.

¹³ “Your words have been ^[a]arrogant against Me,” says the Lord. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against You?’ ¹⁴ You have said, ‘It is ^(A)pointless to serve God; and what ^(B)benefit is it for us that we have done what He required, and that we have walked in mourning before the Lord of armies? ¹⁵ So now we ^(C)call the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up, but they also put God to the test and ^(D)escape punishment.’”