Not unlike spoiled children whose acting out got them nowhere, Israel returned to Kadesh and wept before the Lord. The twice-repeated fact that God did not listen to their cries of anguish is in a way an echo of their earlier refusal to listen to him (Deuteronomy 1:43).
45 A votre retour, vous pleurâtes devant l'Eternel; mais l'Eternel n'écouta point votre voix, et ne vous prêta point l'oreille.