^30 (A)The Lord, your God, who goes before you, is the one who will fight for you, just as he acted with you before your very eyes in Egypt, ³¹ as well as in the wilderness, where you saw how the Lord, your God, carried you, as one carries his own child, all along your journey until you arrived at this place.” ³² Despite this, you would not trust the Lord, your God, ³³ who journeys before you to find you a place to camp—by night in the fire, and by day in the cloud, to show you the way to go.^(B)

²² Do not fear them, for it is the Lord, your God, who will fight for you.”^(A)

²⁸ Commission Joshua,^(A) and encourage and strengthen him, for it is he who will cross at the head of this people and he who will give them possession of the land you are to see.

³ Know, then, today that it is the Lord, your God, who will cross over before you as a consuming fire; he it is who will destroy them and subdue them before you, so that you can dispossess and remove them quickly, as the Lord promised you.^(A)