In a moment of hopeless despair, Israel forgets the God of the Covenant.

....................They cry bitterly to Moses for bringing them into this place of what looked like death.

...........................Exodus 14:11-12
"11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
12 Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."