Joshua 23:9–16

⁹“^aFor Yahweh has dispossessed great and mighty nations from before you; and as for you, ^bno man has stood before you to this day.

¹⁰“^aOne of your men will pursue one thousand, for Yahweh your God is ^bHe who fights for you, just as He ¹promised you.

¹¹“So keep your souls very carefully to love Yahweh your God.

¹²“For if you ever turn back and ^acling to the rest of these nations, these which remain among you, and ^bintermarry with them, so that you go along with them and they with you,

¹³know with certainty that Yahweh your God will not continue to dispossess these nations from before you; but they will be a ^asnare and a trap to you and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.

¹⁴“Now behold, today ^aI am going the way of all the earth, and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that ^bnot one word of all the good words which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you has failed; all have come to pass for you; not one word of them has failed.

¹⁵“And it will be that just as all the good words which Yahweh your God spoke to you have come upon you, so ^aYahweh will bring upon you all the calamitous words, until He has destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.

¹⁶“^aWhen you trespass against the covenant of Yahweh your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of Yahweh will burn against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which He has given you.”