4 Heb “and Pharaoh will say.”
5 The word translated “wandering around confused” indicates that Pharaoh thought the Israelites would be so perplexed and confused that they would not know which way to turn in order to escape—and they would never dream of crossing the sea (S. R. Driver, Exodus, ).
6 The expression has also been translated “the desert has shut [the way] for them,” and more freely “[the Israelites are] hemmed in by the desert.”

In other versions

For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, ‘They are wandering in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’

Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert.’

Pharaoh will say of the Israelites: They are wandering around the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.

Then Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are confused. They are trapped in the wilderness!’

And Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering around in the land. The desert has closed in on them.’

For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

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