8O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turns their backs before their enemies!
8O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turns their backs before their enemies!
5 And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: why the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust on their heads.
7 And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God, why have you at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelled on the other side Jordan!
8 O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turns their backs before their enemies!
9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do to your great name?
10 And the LORD said to Joshua, Get you up; why lie you thus on your face?
7:8O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has been routed by its enemies?
7:8O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!
7:8My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning their backs to their enemies?
7:8Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel hath turned their backs before their enemies!
7:8Ah Lord! what shall I say after Israel have turned their backs before their enemies?
7:8Oh Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel hath turned their backs before their enemies!
7:8O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turn their backs before their enemies!
7:8Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!
7:8Oh, Lord, what do I say, after that Israel hath turned the neck before its enemies?