Translations
Then watch: if it heads straight up toward Beth-shemesh, its own territory, we will know Yahweh has brought this disaster on us. If it doesn't, we'll know His hand wasn't behind it — just bad luck.'
Watch: if it goes up along the road to its own territory — toward Beth-Shemesh — then it is He who brought this great evil upon us. But if not, we shall know His hand did not strike us; it was mere chance that came upon us.'
And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us.
but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”