Numbers 20:5 (BSB)

Why have you led us up out of Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates—and there is no water to drink!”

From Numbers 20. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 20:5

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 20:1-13: After thirty-eight years' tedious marches, or rather tedious rests, in the wilderness, backward towards the Red Sea, the armies of Israel now at length set their faces towards Canaan again, and had come not far off from the place where they were when, by the righteous sentence of divine Justice, they were made to begin their wanderings.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 20:5: And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt,.... They represent that affair in such a light, as if they were forced out of Egypt by Moses and Aaron against their wills; or at least were overpersuaded by them to do what they had no inclination to, namely, to come out of Egypt; though they were in the utmost bondage and slavery...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 20:2-5: Num 20:2-5 Sin of Moses and Aaron at the Water of Strife at Kadesh. - In the arid desert the congregation was in want of water, and the people quarrelled with Moses in consequence. In connection with the first stay in Kadesh there is nothing said about any deficiency of water.