And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying: "If only we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
Numbers 20:3
Surrounding context
20:2 Now there was no water for the congregation; so they gathered together against Moses and Aaron.
20:3 And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying: "If only we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
20:4 Why have you brought up the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our animals should die here?