⁶ And I said: “O my God, I am too ^(A)ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God; for ^(B)our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has ^(C)grown up to the heavens.

^21 (A)Then the Lord sent an angel who cut down every mighty man of valor, leader, and captain in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned ^(B)shamefaced to his own land. And when he had gone into the temple of his god, some of his own offspring struck him down with the sword there.

⁷ And Joshua said, “Alas, Lord ^[a]God, ^(A)why have You brought this people over the Jordan at all—to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Oh, that we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan! ⁸ O Lord, what shall I say when Israel turns its ^[b]back before its enemies? ⁹ For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear it, and surround us, and ^(B)cut off our name from the earth. Then ^(C)what will You do for Your great name?”