⁷ So ^(A)to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations,^{[a] (B)}a thorn was given me in the flesh, ^(C)a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.

⁵⁵ But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as ^(A)barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.

³ So now I say, ^(A)I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become ^(B)thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”

²⁵ But Hezekiah ^(A)did not make return according to the benefit done to him, for ^(B)his heart was proud. Therefore ^(C)wrath came upon him and Judah and Jerusalem. ²⁶ But Hezekiah ^(D)humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

⁵ you are ^(A)to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so ^(B)that his spirit may be saved ^(C)in the day of the Lord.^[a]