Deuteronomy 7

New American Standard Bible

Warnings

7 “^(A)When the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to take possession of it, and He drives away many nations from before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, ^(B)seven nations greater and mightier than you, ²and when the Lord your God turns them over to you and you ^[a]defeat them, ^(C)you shall ^[b]utterly destroy them. ^(D)You shall not make a covenant with them ^(E)nor be gracious to them. ³Furthermore, ^(F)you shall not intermarry with them: you shall not give your ^[c]daughters to ^[d]their sons, nor shall you take ^[e]their daughters for your ^[f]sons. ⁴For ^[g]they will turn your ^[h]sons away from ^[i]following Me, and they will serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and ^(G)He will quickly destroy you. ⁵But this is what you shall do to them: ^(H)you shall tear down their altars, smash their memorial stones, cut their ^[j]Asherim to pieces, and burn their carved images in the fire. ⁶For you are ^(I)a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be ^(J)a people for His personal possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the ^[k]earth.

⁷“^(K)The Lord did not ^[l]make you His beloved nor choose you because you were greater in number than any of the peoples, since you were the fewest of all peoples, ⁸but because the Lord loved you and kept the ^(L)oath which He swore to your forefathers, ^(M)the Lord brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of ^[m]slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. ⁹Know therefore that the Lord your God, ^(N)He is God, ^(O)the faithful God, ^(P)who keeps ^[n]His covenant and ^[o]His faithfulness to a thousand generations for those who ^(Q)love Him and keep His commandments; ¹⁰but He ^(R)repays those who hate Him to ^[p]their faces, to eliminate ^[q]them; He will not hesitate toward him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face. ¹¹Therefore, you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

Promises of God

¹²“^(S)Then it shall come about, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep ^[r]His covenant with you and ^[s]His faithfulness which He swore to your forefathers. ¹³And He will ^(T)love you, bless you, and ^(U)make you numerous; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain, your new wine, and your oil, the newborn of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, ^[t]in the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you. ¹⁴You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no sterile male or ^(V)infertile female among you or among your cattle. ¹⁵And ^(W)the Lord will remove from you all sickness; and He will not inflict upon you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will give them to all who hate you. ¹⁶You shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will turn over to you; ^(X)your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be ^(Y)a snare to you.

¹⁷“If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I ^(Z)dispossess them?’ ¹⁸you are not to be afraid of them; you shall ^(AA)remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: ¹⁹^(AB)the great trials which your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders, and the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God brought you out. The Lord your God will do the same to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. ²⁰Indeed, the Lord your God will send ^(AC)the hornet against them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you perish. ²¹You are not to be terrified of them, because ^(AD)the Lord your God is in your midst, ^(AE)a great and awesome God. ²²^(AF)And the Lord your God will drive away these nations from you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, otherwise the ^[u]wild animals would become too numerous for you. ²³^(AG)But the Lord your God will turn them over to you, and will ^[v]throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed. ²⁴^(AH)And He will hand over their kings to you, so that you will eliminate their name from under heaven; ^(AI)no one will be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them. ²⁵The carved images of their gods you are to ^(AJ)burn with fire; you shall ^(AK)not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, or you will be ^(AL)trapped by it; for it is an ^(AM)abomination to the Lord your God. ²⁶And you shall not bring an abomination into your house and become ^(AN)designated for destruction, like it; you are to utterly detest it, and you are to utterly loathe it, for it is something designated for destruction.

Footnotes

Deuteronomy 7:2 Lit strike
Deuteronomy 7:2 Or certainly devote to the ban
Deuteronomy 7:3 Lit daughter
Deuteronomy 7:3 Lit his son
Deuteronomy 7:3 Lit his daughter
Deuteronomy 7:3 Lit son
Deuteronomy 7:4 Lit he
Deuteronomy 7:4 Lit son
Deuteronomy 7:4 Lit after
Deuteronomy 7:5 I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)
Deuteronomy 7:6 Lit ground
Deuteronomy 7:7 Or become so attached to
Deuteronomy 7:8 Lit slaves
Deuteronomy 7:9 Lit the
Deuteronomy 7:9 Lit the
Deuteronomy 7:10 Lit his face
Deuteronomy 7:10 Lit him
Deuteronomy 7:12 Lit the
Deuteronomy 7:12 Lit the
Deuteronomy 7:13 Lit on the ground
Deuteronomy 7:22 Lit animals of the field
Deuteronomy 7:23 Lit confuse them with

Psalm 90

New American Standard Bible

BOOK 4

God’s Eternity and the Brevity of Human Life.

A Prayer of ^[a]Moses, the man of God.

90 Lord, You have been our ^[b]^(A)dwelling place in all generations.
²Before ^(B)the mountains were born
^[c]Or You ^(C)gave birth to the earth and the world,
Even ^(D)from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

³You ^(E)turn mortals back into dust
And say, “Return, you sons of mankind.”
⁴For ^(F)a thousand years in Your sight
Are like ^(G)yesterday when it passes by,
^[d]Or like a ^(H)watch in the night.
⁵You ^(I)have ^[e]swept them away like a flood, they ^[f]^(J)fall asleep;
In the morning they are like ^(K)grass that ^[g]sprouts anew.
⁶In the morning it ^(L)flourishes and ^[h]sprouts anew;
Toward evening it ^(M)wilts and ^(N)withers away.

⁷For we have been ^(O)consumed by Your anger,
And we have been terrified by Your wrath.
⁸You have ^(P)placed our guilty deeds before You,
Our ^(Q)hidden sins in the light of Your presence.
⁹For ^(R)all our days have dwindled away in Your fury;
We have finished our years like a ^[i]sigh.
¹⁰As for the days of our ^[j]life, ^[k]they contain seventy years,
Or if due to strength, ^(S)eighty years,
Yet their pride is only ^(T)trouble and tragedy;
For it quickly passes, and we ^(U)disappear.
¹¹Who ^[l]understands the ^(V)power of Your anger
And Your fury, according to the ^(W)fear ^[m]that is due You?
¹²So ^(X)teach us to number our days,
That we may ^[n]^(Y)present to You a heart of wisdom.

¹³Do ^(Z)return, Lord; ^(AA)how long will it be?
And ^[o]be ^(AB)sorry for Your servants.
¹⁴^(AC)Satisfy us in the morning with Your graciousness,
That we may ^(AD)sing for joy and rejoice all our days.
¹⁵^(AE)Make us glad ^[p]according to the days You have afflicted us,
And the ^(AF)years we have seen ^[q]evil.
¹⁶Let Your ^(AG)work appear to Your servants
And Your ^(AH)majesty ^[r]to their children.
¹⁷May the ^(AI)kindness of the Lord our God be upon us;
And ^[s]^(AJ)confirm for us the work of our hands;
Yes, ^[t]confirm the work of our hands.