³ That is why those people will soon disappear. They will be like a fog that comes early in the morning and then quickly disappears. The Israelites will be like chaff that is blown from the threshing floor. The Israelites will be like smoke that goes out a window and disappears.

⁴ “I have been the Lord your God since the time you were in the land of Egypt. You did not know any other god except me. I am the one who saved you. ⁵ I knew you in the desert—I knew you in that dry land.