Deuteronomy 7:12–26

Promises of God

¹²“^aThen it shall come about, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you ¹His covenant and His lovingkindness which He swore to your forefathers.

¹³“He will ^alove you and bless you and ^bmultiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, ¹in the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you.

¹⁴“You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female ^abarren among you or among your cattle.

¹⁵“^aThe Lord will remove from you all sickness; and He will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will lay them on all who hate you.

¹⁶“You shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will deliver to you; ^ayour eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be ^ba snare to you.

¹⁷“If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I ^adispossess them?’

¹⁸you shall not be afraid of them; you shall well ^aremember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:

^19athe 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. So shall the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

²⁰“Moreover, the Lord your God will send ^athe hornet against them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you perish.

²¹“You shall not dread ¹them, for ^athe Lord your God is in your midst, ^ba great and awesome God.

²²“^aThe Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, for the ¹wild beasts would grow too numerous for you.

²³“^aBut the Lord your God will deliver them before you, and will ¹throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed.

²⁴“^aHe will deliver their kings into your hand so that you will make their name perish from under heaven; ^bno man will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.

²⁵“The graven images of their gods you are to ^aburn with fire; you shall ^bnot covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, or you will be ^csnared by it, for it is an ^dabomination to the Lord your God.

²⁶“You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and like it come under the ^aban; you shall utterly detest it and you shall utterly abhor it, for it is something banned.