Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Neither said they, Where ... The very words which God uses (Isaiah 63:9; Isaiah 63:11; Isaiah 63:13) when, as it were, reminding Himself of His former acts of love to Israel as a ground for interposing in their behalf again. When they would not say, Where is Yahweh, etc., God Himself at last said it for them (cf. remark, Jeremiah 2:2, above).
Deserts ... pits. The desert between Mount Sinai and Palestine abounds in chasms and pits, in which beasts of burden often sink down to the knees.
A land of the shadow of death - refers to the darkness of the caverns amidst the rocky precipices (Deuteronomy 8:15, "That great and terrible wilderness").