Joshua 7:8
Good News Translation
What can I say, O Lord, now that Israel has retreated from the enemy?

New Revised Standard Version
O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned their backs to their enemies!

Contemporary English Version
I don't even know what to say to you, since Israel's army has turned and run from the enemy.

New American Bible
Please, Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back to its enemies?

Douay-Rheims Bible
My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning their backs to their enemies?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning their backs to their enemies?

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Ezra 9:10 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

Habakkuk 2:1 I will stand upon my watch, and fix my foot upon the tower: and I will watch, to see what will be said to me, and what I may answer to him that reproveth me.

Romans 3:5,6 But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath? . . .

back [heb] necks

Context
Israel Defeated at Ai
7And Joshua said: Alas, O Lord God, why wouldst thou bring this people over the river Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and to destroy us? would God we had stayed beyond the Jordan, as we began. 8My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning their backs to their enemies?9The Chanaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land, will hear of it, and being gathered together will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great name?…
Cross References
Joshua 7:7
And Joshua said: Alas, O Lord God, why wouldst thou bring this people over the river Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and to destroy us? would God we had stayed beyond the Jordan, as we began.

Joshua 7:9
The Chanaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land, will hear of it, and being gathered together will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great name?

1 Samuel 4:3
And the people returned to the camp: and the ancients of Israel said: Why hath the Lord defeated us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch unto us the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Silo, and let it come in the midst of us, that it may save us from the hand of our enemies.

Psalm 44:10
But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame: and thou , O God, wilt not go out with our armies.

Joshua 7:7
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