Verse 4
Deuteronomy 9:4
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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Say not in thy heart, when the Lord thy God (Elohim) shall have destroyed them in thy sight: For my justice hath the Lord brought me in to possess this land, whereas these nations are destroyed for their wickedness.
Original Language Text
hebrew
אַל תֹּאמַ֣ר בִּ/לְבָבְ/ךָ֗ בַּ/הֲדֹ֣ף יְהוָה֩ אֱלֹהֶ֨י/ךָ אֹתָ֥/ם מִ/לְּ/פָנֶי/ךָ֮ לֵ/אמֹר֒ בְּ/צִדְקָתִ/י֙ הֱבִיאַ֣/נִי יְהוָ֔ה לָ/רֶ֖שֶׁת אֶת הָ/אָ֣רֶץ הַ/זֹּ֑את וּ/בְ/רִשְׁעַת֙ הַ/גּוֹיִ֣ם הָ/אֵ֔לֶּה יְהוָ֖ה מוֹרִישָׁ֥/ם מִ/פָּנֶֽי/ךָ
English Translation
Do not say in your heart, "In the driving out of the Lord your God before you, I have brought them in because of my righteousness; the Lord has brought me in to inherit this land, and because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord is driving them out from before you."
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Chapter 9 Context
1
Hear, O Israel: Thou shalt go over the Jordan this day; to possess nations very great, and stronger...
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2
A People great and tall, the sons of the Enacims, whom thou hast seen, and heard of, against whom no...
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3
Thou shalt know therefore this day that the Lord thy God (Elohim) himself will pass over before thee...
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4
Say not in thy heart, when the Lord thy God (Elohim) shall have destroyed them in thy sight: For my...
5
For it is not for thy justices, and the uprightness of thy heart that thou shalt go in to possess th...
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6
Know therefore that the Lord thy God (Elohim) giveth thee not this excellent land in possession for...
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7
Remember, and forget not how then provokedst the Lord thy God (Elohim) to wrath in the wilderness. F...
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8
For in Horeb also thou didst provoke him, and he was angry, and would have destroyed thee,
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9
When I went up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the L...
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10
And the Lord gave me two tables of stone written with the finger of God (Elohim), and containing all...
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11
And when forty days were passed, and as many nights, the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the t...
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12
And said to me: Arise, and go down from hence quickly: for thy people, which thou hast brought out o...
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13
And again the Lord said to me: I see that this people is stiffnecked:
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14
Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and set thee over a...
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15
And when I came down from the burning mount, and held the two tables of the covenant with both hands...
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16
And saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God (Elohim), and had made to yourselves a molten...
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17
I cast the tables out of my hands, and broke them in your sight.
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18
And I fell down before the Lord se before, forty days and nights neither eating bread, nor drinking...
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19
For I feared his indignation and anger, wherewith being moved against you, he would have destroyed y...
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20
And he was exceeding angry against Aaron also, and would have destroyed him, and I prayed in like ma...
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21
And your sin that you had committed, that is, the calf, I took, and burned it with fire, and breakin...
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At the burning also, and at the place of temptation, and at the graves of lust you provoked the Lord...
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23
And when he sent you from Cadesbarne, saying: Go up, and possess the land that I have given you, and...
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24
But were always rebellious from the day that I began to know you.
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And I lay prostrate before the Lord forty days and nights, in which I humbly besought him, that he w...
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26
And praying, I said: 0 Lord God (Elohim), destroy not thy people, and thy inheritance, which thou ha...
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27
Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: look not on the stubbornness of this people, nor on...
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Lest perhaps the inhabitants of the land, out of which thou hast brought us, say: The Lord could not...
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Who are thy people and thy inheritance, whom thou hast brought out by thy great strength, and in thy...
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