Joshua 7:6-9

English Standard Version

⁶ Then Joshua ^(A)tore his clothes and ^(B)fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put ^(C)dust on their heads. ⁷ And Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord God, ^(D)why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan! ⁸ O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! ⁹ For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and ^(E)cut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?”