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It is not because of your righteousness and because of the uprightness of your heart that you are coming to take possession of their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God is driving them before you,[a] and in order to confirm the promise[b] that Yahweh swore to your ancestors,[c] to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 9:5 Literally “from your faces”
  2. Deuteronomy 9:5 Literally “word”
  3. Deuteronomy 9:5 Or “fathers”

It is not because of your righteousness or your integrity(A) that you are going in to take possession of their land; but on account of the wickedness(B) of these nations,(C) the Lord your God will drive them out(D) before you, to accomplish what he swore(E) to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.(F)

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