Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
If you break faith with God and cleave to these nations instead, mark it well: He will cease to drive them out. They become snares drawing you into idolatry and wickedness, scourges and thorns that distress you until you are cut off from this land He gave you, by sword, famine, captivity, or plague.
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Break covenant and these nations turn into your torment: snares, traps, perpetual grief. They will be the instrument of your destruction, the cause of your ruin from the land the Lord has given you.
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These nations are fowlers' nets and ground traps waiting for the heedless. A goad in your side, a thorn in your eye, nothing more vexing. They will drive you into their false gods and blind your understanding through idolatry while God preserves them solely to punish and distress you.
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