Israel Provoked God

1 “Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess anations greater and mightier than you, great cities 1bfortified to heaven,

2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, ‘aWho can stand before the sons of Anak?’

3 “Know therefore today that ait is the Lord your God who is crossing over before you as ba consuming fire. He will destroy them and He will subdue them before you, so that cyou may drive them out and destroy them quickly, just as the Lord has spoken to you.

4 “aDo not say in your heart when the Lord your God has driven them out before 1you, ‘Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,’ but it is bbecause of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is dispossessing them before you.

5 “It is anot for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God is driving them out before you, in order to confirm bthe 1oath which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

6 “Know, then, it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are aa 1stubborn people.