Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert.’
NMVFor Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House] will say of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], They [are] entangled in the land, the wilderness has shut them in.
OJBFor Pharaoh will think of the Bnei Yisroel, They are entangled in the land, the midbar hath shut them in.
Onkelos (Etheridge)And Pharoh will say of the children of Israel, They are bewildered in the land, the desert hath got hold of them:
T4TWhen the king knows you have done that, he will think, ‘The Israeli people are confused. They are wandering around, and the desert blocks their path.’