Translations
The men of Ai looked back and saw smoke from their city rising into the sky. There was nowhere to run—they were completely hemmed in on every side. And the Israelites who had been retreating toward the wilderness now wheeled around and came back fighting.
The men of Ha-Ai turned and looked back—and there, smoke from the city was rising toward the skies! They had no power to flee this way or that. And the people who had been fleeing toward the wilderness turned back against their pursuers.
And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
When the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now turned against their pursuers.