³⁵ Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say,

⁷ Joshua said, “Ah, Lord God! Why have you brought this people across the Jordan at all, to hand us over to the Amorites so as to destroy us? Would that we had been content to settle beyond the Jordan!^(A)

⁸ O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned their backs to their enemies!