YuēShūyàjì 7:7

7 Yuēshūyà shuō , āi zāi . zhǔ Yēhéhuá a , nǐ wèishénme jìng lǐng zhè bǎixìng guō Yuēdànhé , jiāng wǒmen jiāo zaì Yàmólìrén de shǒu zhōng , shǐ wǒmen mièwáng ne . wǒmen bú rú zhù zaì Yuēdànhé nàbiān dǎo hǎo .

YuēShūyàjì 7:7 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 7:7

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.

YuēShūyàjì 7:7 In-Context

5 Yì chéng de rén jī shā le tāmen sān shí liù rén , cóng chéng mén qián zhuīgǎn tāmen , zhídào Shìbālín , zaì xià pō shā baì tāmen . zhòng mín de xīn jiù xiāohuà rú shuǐ .

6 Yuēshūyà biàn sī liĕ yīfu . tā hé Yǐsèliè de zhǎnglǎo bǎ huī sǎ zaì tóu shàng , zaì Yēhéhuá de yuē jǔ qián fǔfú zaì dì , zhídào wǎnshang .

7 Yuēshūyà shuō , āi zāi . zhǔ Yēhéhuá a , nǐ wèishénme jìng lǐng zhè bǎixìng guō Yuēdànhé , jiāng wǒmen jiāo zaì Yàmólìrén de shǒu zhōng , shǐ wǒmen mièwáng ne . wǒmen bú rú zhù zaì Yuēdànhé nàbiān dǎo hǎo .

8 Zhǔ a , Yǐsèliè rén jì zaì chóudí miànqián zhuǎn beì taópǎo , wǒ hái yǒu shénme kè shuō de ne .

9 Jiānán rén hé zhè ddì yīqiè de jūmín tīngjian le jiù bì wéi kùn wǒmen , jiāng wǒmen de míng cóng dì shàng chúmiĕ . nàshí nǐ wéi nǐde dà míng yào zĕnyàng xíng ne .