Numbers 14:31 (YLT)

Passage

`As to your infants--of whom ye have said, A spoil they are become--I have even brought them in, and they have known the land which ye have kicked against;

Nearby Context

Numbers 14:29 in this wilderness do your carcases fall, even all your numbered ones, to all your number, from a son of twenty years and upward, who have murmured against Me;

Numbers 14:30 ye--ye come not in unto the land which I have lifted up My hand to cause you to tabernacle in it, except Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua son of Nun.

Numbers 14:31 `As to your infants--of whom ye have said, A spoil they are become--I have even brought them in, and they have known the land which ye have kicked against;

Numbers 14:32 as to you--your carcases do fall in this wilderness,

Numbers 14:33 and your sons are evil in the wilderness forty years, and have borne your whoredoms till your carcases are consumed in the wilderness;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "infants--of", "said", "spoil", "become--i", "even", "brought", "known", and "land". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "infants--of" and "said", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 30's "ye--ye come not in unto the land..." into verse 32's "as to you--your carcases do fall in...", so "infants--of" and "said" belong inside that flow. In Numbers context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "infants--of" and "said" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.