For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, ‘They are wandering in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’
Joshua 8:6 - English Standard Version 2016 And they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city. For they will say, ‘They are fleeing from us, just as before.’ So we will flee before them. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 (for they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Till we have drawn them from the city, for they will say, They are fleeing from us as before. So we will flee before them. American Standard Version (1901) and they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them; Common English Bible They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city. They will think, They are fleeing from us as before. So we will flee from them. Catholic Public Domain Version until, pursuing us, they are drawn away from the city. For they will think that we are fleeing as before. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Till they pursuing us be drawn farther from the city. For they will think that we flee as before. |
For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, ‘They are wandering in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’
The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’
Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.
For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.
And I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out against us just as before, we shall flee before them.
Then you shall rise up from the ambush and seize the city, for the Lord your God will give it into your hand.
And the people of Benjamin said, “They are routed before us, as at the first.” But the people of Israel said, “Let us flee and draw them away from the city to the highways.”