Deuteronomy 9:1-6

1599 Geneva Bible

9 1 God doth not them good for their own righteousness, but for his own sake. 7 Moses putteth them in remembrance of their sins. 17 The two Tables are broken. 26 Moses prayeth for the people.

¹ Hear, O Israel, Thou shalt pass over Jordan ^[a]this day, to go in and to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, and cities great and walled up to heaven,

² A people great and tall, even the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast ^[b]heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak?

³ Understand therefore that this day the Lord thy God is he which ^[c]goeth over before thee as a consuming fire: he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so thou shalt cast them out and destroy them suddenly, as the Lord hath said unto thee.

⁴ Speak not thou in thine heart (after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out before thee) saying, For my ^[d]righteousness the Lord hath brought me in, to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations, the Lord hath cast them out before thee.

⁵ For thou entrust not to inherit their land for thy righteousness, or for their upright heart, but for the wickedness of those nations, the Lord thy God doth cast them out before thee, and that he might perform the word which the Lord thy God sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

⁶ Understand therefore, that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness: for thou art a ^[e]stiff-necked people.