Joshua 23:9–16

^9pFor the Lord has ²driven out from before you great and strong nations; but as for you, no one has been able to stand against you to this day. ^10qOne man of you shall chase a thousand, for the Lord your God is He who fights for you, ^ras He promised you. ^11sTherefore take careful heed to yourselves, that you love the Lord your God. ¹²Or else, if indeed you do ^tgo back, and cling to the remnant of these nations—these that remain among you—and ^umake marriages with them, and go in to them and they to you, ¹³know for certain that ^vthe Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. ^wBut they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

¹⁴“Behold, this day ^xI ³am going the way of all the earth. And you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that ^ynot one thing has failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spoke concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one word of them has failed. ^15zTherefore it shall come to pass, that as all the good things have come upon you which the Lord your God promised you, so the Lord will bring upon you ^aall harmful things, until He has destroyed you from this good land which the Lord your God has given you. ¹⁶⁴When you have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed down to them, then the ^banger of the Lord will burn against you, and you shall perish quickly from the good land which He has given you.”