Joshua 7:6-8

Revised Geneva Translation

⁶ Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth upon his face before the Ark of the LORD until sunset—he and the elders of Israel—and put dust upon their heads.

⁷ And Joshua said, “Alas, O LORD God, why have you brought this people over the Jordan? To deliver us into the hand of the Amorites and to destroy us? If only we had been content to dwell on the other side of the Jordan!

⁸ “Oh LORD, what shall I say when Israel turns their backs before their enemies?