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

²⁴ And there will be no more for the house of Israel a ^(A)prickling brier or a painful thorn from any round about them who scorned them; then they will know that I am the Lord God.”