World English Bible
"Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!"
— Joshua 7:8, World English Bible
“O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!”
“Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel hath turned their backs before their enemies! ”
“O Lord, what can I say now that Israel has retreated before its enemies?”
“My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning their backs to their enemies?”
“O Lord, what am I to say now that Israel have given way before their attackers?”
“O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!”
The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them, and they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.
Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of Yahweh until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.
Joshua said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!
Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!
For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?"
Yahweh said to Joshua, "Get up! Why are you fallen on your face like that?
Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.