1Hear, O Israel: you are crossing the Jordan today in order to enter and take possession of nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified to the heavens.2A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakites, whom you have known and of whom you have heard: who can stand before the sons of Anak?3Know therefore this day that the LORD your God is the one who crosses over before you as a consuming fire; he will destroy them and subdue them before you, so that you shall dispossess them and destroy them quickly, just as the LORD has promised you.4Do not say in your heart, when the LORD your God drives them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,' while it is on account of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.5It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out before you, and in order to confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.6Know, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a people of a severe neck.