2. Israel mourned the bad news
<p><b>Exodus 33:1-6 (ESV) </b>
<sup>1 </sup> The LORD said to Moses, “Depart; go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give it.’
<sup>2 </sup> I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
<sup>3 </sup> Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”
<sup>4 </sup> When the people heard this disastrous word, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments.
<sup>5 </sup> For the LORD had said to Moses, “Say to the people of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do with you.’”
<sup>6 </sup> Therefore the people of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.
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