13 Know ye for certain, that the Lord your God will cast out no more of these nations from before you: (A)but they shall be a snare and destruction unto you, and a whip on your sides, and thorns in your [a]eyes, until ye perish out of this good land, which the Lord your God hath given you.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 23:13 Meaning, they shall be a continual grief unto you, and so the cause of your destruction.

13 then you may be sure that the Lord your God will no longer drive out(A) these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares(B) and traps for you, whips on your backs and thorns in your eyes,(C) until you perish from this good land,(D) which the Lord your God has given you.

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Wherefore, I said also, I will not cast them out before you, but they shall be (A)as thorns unto your sides, and their gods shall be your [a]destruction.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 2:3 Or, snare.

And I have also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you;(A) they will become traps(B) for you, and their gods will become snares(C) to you.’”

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