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6Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of Yahweh until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads. 7Joshua said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan! 8Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! 9For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?"

7The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon. 8They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year: eighteen years [oppressed they] all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.