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OET (OET-LV) And_looked the_men the_ˊAy back_them and_they_saw and_see/lo/see it_went_up the_smoke the_city the_sky_to and_not it_was in/among_them hands to_flee hither and_that and_the_people the_fleeing the_wilderness it_turned_back against the_pursuers.
OET (OET-RV) When the men from Ay turned and looked behind them, the smoke from their city was going up into the sky, but they had nowhere to escape to. Then Yehoshua’s men who’d been fleeing towards the wilderness turned back around towards their pursuers
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / exclamations
וְהִנֵּ֨ה
and=see/lo/see!
The author is using the term behold to focus attention on what happens next in this story. Your language may have a comparable expression that you could use in your translation.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
וְלֹא־הָיָ֨ה בָהֶ֥ם יָדַ֛יִם לָנ֖וּס הֵ֣נָּה וָהֵ֑נָּה
and=not it_became in/among=them power to,flee (Some words not found in UHB: and,looked men_of the,Ai back,them and=they_saw and=see/lo/see! rising smoke the=city the,sky,to and=not it_became in/among=them power to,flee they(f) and,that and,the,people the,fleeing the,wilderness turned_back to/towards the,pursuers )
Here, hand represents the capability of a person. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or state the meaning plainly. This statement seems to introduce the action that the author describes in the rest of this verse and in the next two verses, in which the soldiers from Ai and Bethel become surrounded by the Israelite soldiers. Alternate translation: “and it was not possible for them to flee here or there”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / merism
הֵ֣נָּה וָהֵ֑נָּה
(Some words not found in UHB: and,looked men_of the,Ai back,them and=they_saw and=see/lo/see! rising smoke the=city the,sky,to and=not it_became in/among=them power to,flee they(f) and,that and,the,people the,fleeing the,wilderness turned_back to/towards the,pursuers )
The author is speaking of two things in order to mean them and everything in between. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or plain language. Alternate translation: “anywhere”
OET (OET-LV) And_looked the_men the_ˊAy back_them and_they_saw and_see/lo/see it_went_up the_smoke the_city the_sky_to and_not it_was in/among_them hands to_flee hither and_that and_the_people the_fleeing the_wilderness it_turned_back against the_pursuers.
OET (OET-RV) When the men from Ay turned and looked behind them, the smoke from their city was going up into the sky, but they had nowhere to escape to. Then Yehoshua’s men who’d been fleeing towards the wilderness turned back around towards their pursuers
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.