Josue 7:7

Nova Vulgata

Et dixit Iosue: "Heu, Domine Deus, quid voluisti traducere populum istum Iordanem fluvium, ut traderes nos in manus Amorraei et perderes? Utinam mansissemus trans Iordanem!

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Non quia cunctas gentes numero vincebatis, vobis junctus est Dominus, et elegit vos, cum omnibus sitis populis pauciores :

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
et dixit Josue: Heu Domine Deus, quid voluisti traducere populum istum Jordanem fluvium, ut traderes nos in manus Amorrhæi, et perderes? utinam ut cœpimus, mansissemus trans Jordanem.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wherefore: Exodus 5:22, Exodus 5:23, Numbers 14:3, 2 Kings 3:10, Psalms 116:11, Jeremiah 12:1, Jeremiah 12:2, Hebrews 12:5

to deliver: Exodus 14:11, Exodus 14:12, Exodus 17:3, Numbers 20:4, Numbers 20:5, Matthew 17:17, Matthew 17:20, Mark 8:17, Mark 8:18

would to: Exodus 16:3

and dwelt: Joshua 1:2-4

Reciprocal: Numbers 32:5 - bring us Deuteronomy 9:28 - Because Joshua 8:1 - Fear not Judges 20:28 - Shall I yet Judges 21:3 - why is Psalms 44:15 - confusion Isaiah 26:18 - we have not Jeremiah 45:3 - added Luke 13:8 - let 2 Corinthians 11:1 - Would

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Joshua said, alas! O Lord God,.... What a miserable and distressed condition are we in! have pity and compassion on us; who could have thought it, that this would have been our case?

wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us: who are mentioned either for the whole people of the land of Canaan; or rather, because the people of Israel were now in that part of the country which they inhabited: these words discover much weakness, diffidence, and distrust, and bear some likeness to the murmurs of the children of Israel in the wilderness; but not proceeding from that malignity of spirit theirs did, but from a concern for the good of the people and the glory of God, they are not resented by him:

would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan; in which he seems to cast the blame, not upon the Lord but upon himself and the people, who were not content to dwell on the other side, but were desirous of a larger and better country; and now ruin seemed to be the consequent of that covetous disposition and discontented mind.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 7:7. Alas, O Lord God — Particles of exclamations and distress, or what are called interjections, are nearly the same in all languages: and the reason is because they are the simple voice of nature. The Hebrew word which we translate alas is אהה ahah. The complaint of Joshua in this and the following verses seems principally to have arisen from his deep concern for the glory of God, and the affecting interest he took in behalf of the people: he felt for the thousands of Israel, whom he considered as abandoned to destruction: and he felt for the glory of God, for he knew should Israel be destroyed God's name would be blasphemed among the heathen; and his expostulations with his Maker, which have been too hastily blamed by some, as savouring of too great freedom and impatience are founded on God's own words, Deuteronomy 32:26-27, and on the practice of Moses himself, who had used similar expressions on a similar occasion; see Exodus 5:22-23; Numbers 14:13-18.