⁵⁵ But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from you, then it will come about that those whom you let remain of them will be ^(A)like thorns in your eyes and like pricks in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land in which you live.

²⁴ And there will no longer be for the house of Israel a ^(A)painful thorn or a hurtful thorn bush from any surrounding them who despised them; then they will know that I am the Lord God.”