¹⁶ ‘It is because the Lord ^(A)was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give to them that he has killed them in the wilderness.’

²⁸ lest the land from which you brought us say, ^(A)“Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.”

⁹ For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and ^(A)cut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?”

⁷ And Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord God, ^(A)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!