Joshua 7:8

7:8 If only we had been satisfied to live on the other side of the Jordan! O Lord, what can I say now that Israel has retreated ¹  before its enemies?

Ezra 9:10

9:10 “And now what are we able to say after this, our God? For we have forsaken your commandments

Psalms 39:9-10

39:9 I am silent and cannot open my mouth

because of what you have done. ² 

39:10 Please stop wounding me! ³ 

You have almost beaten me to death! ⁴ 

John 12:27

12:27 “Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me ⁵  from this hour’? ⁶  No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour. ⁷ 

[7:8]  ¹ tn Heb “turned [the] back.”

[39:9]  ² tn Heb “because you acted.” The psalmist has in mind God’s disciplinary measures (see vv. 10-13).

[39:10]  ³ tn Heb “remove from upon me your wound.”

[39:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “from the hostility of your hand I have come to an end.”

[12:27]  ⁵ tn Or “save me.”

[12:27]  ⁶ tn Or “this occasion.”

[12:27]  ⁷ tn Or “this occasion.”