Joshua 7:10

Green's Literal Translation

And Jehovah said to Joshua, Get up! Why do you fall on your face this way?

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
The Lord said to Joshua, "Get up! Why have you fallen on your face?

Update Bible Version
And Yahweh said to Joshua, Get yourself up; why are you thus fallen on your face?

English Revised Version
And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore art thou thus fallen upon thy face?

New Century Version
The Lord said to Joshua, "Stand up! Why are you down on your face?

New English Translation
The Lord responded to Joshua, "Get up! Why are you lying there face down?

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD said to Joshua, Arise; Why liest thou thus upon thy face?

World English Bible
Yahweh said to Joshua, Get you up; why are you thus fallen on your face?

Amplified Bible
So the LORD said to Joshua, "Get up! Why is it that you have fallen on your face?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord seide to Josue, Rise thou; whi liggist thou low in the erthe?

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah saith unto Joshua, `Rise for thee, why [is] this? -- thou [art] falling on thy face?

Berean Standard Bible
But the LORD said to Joshua, "Stand up! Why have you fallen on your face?

Contemporary English Version
The Lord answered: Stop lying there on the ground! Get up!

American Standard Version
And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore art thou thus fallen upon thy face?

Bible in Basic English
Then the Lord said to Joshua, Get up; what are you doing with your face to the earth?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde sayde vnto Iosuah: Get thee vp, wherfore liest thou thus vpon thy face?

Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai said to Y'hoshua, "Stand up! Why are you lying there face down?

Darby Translation
And Jehovah said to Joshua, Rise up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord said to Joshua, "Why are you down there with your face on the ground? Stand up!

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'Get thee up; wherefore, now, art thou fallen upon thy face?

King James Version (1611)
And the Lord saide vnto Ioshua, Get thee vp; wherefore liest thou thus vpon thy face?

New Life Bible
The Lord said to Joshua, "Get up! Why have you fallen on your face?

New Revised Standard
The Lord said to Joshua, "Stand up! Why have you fallen upon your face?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh said unto Joshua - Get thee up! wherefore is it that thou art lying upon thy face?

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lord said vnto Ioshua, Get thee vp: wherefore lyest thou thus vpon thy face?

George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD said to Joshua, Get up; why do you lie upon your face on the earth?

Good News Translation
The Lord said to Joshua, "Get up! Why are you lying on the ground like this?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said to Josue: Arise, why liest thou flat on the ground?

Revised Standard Version
The LORD said to Joshua, "Arise, why have you thus fallen upon your face?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord said to Joshua, Rise up; why hast thou fallen upon thy face?

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord then said to Joshua, “Stand up! Why have you fallen facedown?

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD said to Yehoshua, Get you up; why are you thus fallen on your face?

King James Version
And the Lord said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?

Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh said to Joshua, "Stand up! Why have you fallen on your face?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then sayde the LORDE vnto Iosua: Stode vp, why lyest thou so vpon thy face?

THE MESSAGE
God said to Joshua, "Get up. Why are you groveling? Israel has sinned: They've broken the covenant I commanded them; they've taken forbidden plunder—stolen and then covered up the theft, squirreling it away with their own stuff. The People of Israel can no longer look their enemies in the eye—they themselves are plunder. I can't continue with you if you don't rid yourselves of the cursed things.

New American Standard Bible
So the LORD said to Joshua, "Stand up! Why is it that you have fallen on your face?

New King James Version
So the LORD said to Joshua: "Get up! Why do you lie thus on your face?

New Living Translation
But the Lord said to Joshua, "Get up! Why are you lying on your face like this?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the LORD said to Joshua, "Rise up! Why is it that you have fallen on your face?

Legacy Standard Bible
So Yahweh said to Joshua, "Rise up! Why is it that you have fallen on your face?

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ And Jehovah said to Joshua, Get up! Why do you fall on your face this way? ¹¹ Israel has sinned, and they also have transgressed My covenant which I commanded them, and have also taken of the cursed things, and have also stolen, and also deceived, and also put it among their stuff. ¹² And the sons of Israel have not been able to stand before their enemies; they have turned the back before their enemies because they have become cursed. I will not be with you again if you do not destroy the cursed things from among you. ¹³ Rise up, sanctify the people, and you shall say, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow. For so says Jehovah, the God of Israel, A cursed thing is among you, Israel; you are not able to stand beforeyour enemies until you take away the cursedthing from among you. ¹⁴ And you shall be brought near in the morning, by your tribes. And it shall be, the tribe which Jehovah takes shall draw near by families. And the family which Jehovah takes shall draw near by households. And the household which Jehovah takesshall draw near by men. ¹⁵ And it shall be, he who is taken with the accursed thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of Jehovah and because he has committed folly in Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wherefore: Exodus 14:15, 1 Samuel 15:22, 1 Samuel 16:1, 1 Chronicles 22:16

liest: Heb. fallest, Joshua 7:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 42:1 - Why do ye Numbers 14:5 - General Joshua 20:1 - spake Ezra 10:4 - Arise Jonah 1:7 - for Haggai 1:9 - Because

Cross-References

Genesis 6:17
And behold, I, even I, am bringing a flood of waters on the earth in order to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the heavens. Everything which is on the earth shall die.

Genesis 7:4
For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights and will wipe away every living substance that I have made from off the face of the earth.

Genesis 7:17
And the flood was on the earth forty days. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

Genesis 7:20
The waters prevailed, fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

Job 22:16
They were taken, but there was not time; their foundation was poured out by a flood;

Luke 17:27
They were eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage, until the day Noah went into the ark. And the flood came and destroyed all.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord said unto Joshua, get thee up,.... From the ground where he lay prostrate, with his face to it: this he said, not as refusing his supplication to him, but rather as encouraging and strengthening him; though chiefly he said this in order to instruct him, and that he might prepare for what he was to do:

wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? in this manner, so distressed and dejected; or for this thing, as the Targum, for this defeat of the army; something else is to be done besides prayer and supplication.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

God’s answer is given directly, and in terms of reproof. Joshua must not lie helpless before God; the cause of the calamity was to be discovered.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 7:10. Wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? — It is plain there was nothing in Joshua's prayer or complaint that was offensive to God, for here there is no reprehension: Why liest thou thus? this is no time for complaint; something else is indispensably necessary to be done.