Joshua 7:8
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My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning their backs to their enemies?

what shall

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.

Lexicon
O
בִּ֖י (bî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 994: Oh that!, with leave, if it please

Lord,
אֲדֹנָ֑י (’ă·ḏō·nāy)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 136: The Lord

what
מָ֣ה (māh)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

can I say,
אֹמַ֔ר (’ō·mar)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

now that
אַ֠חֲרֵי (’a·ḥă·rê)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 310: The hind or following part

Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

has turned
הָפַ֧ךְ (hā·p̄aḵ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2015: To turn about, over, to change, overturn, return, pervert

its back
עֹ֖רֶף (‘ō·rep̄)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6203: The nape, back of the neck, the back

and run from
לִפְנֵ֥י (lip̄·nê)
Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face

its enemies?
אֹיְבָֽיו׃ (’ō·yə·ḇāw)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 341: Hating, an adversary


Additional Translations
O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turns their backs before their enemies!

Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel hath turned their backs before their enemies!

And what shall I say since Israel has turned his back before his enemy?

Ah Lord! what shall I say after Israel have turned their backs before their enemies?

Oh Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel hath turned their backs before their enemies!

O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turn their backs before their enemies!

Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!

Oh, Lord, what do I say, after that Israel hath turned the neck before its enemies?
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