⁵⁵ But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as ^(A)barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.

²⁴ “And for the house of Israel ^(A)there shall be no more a brier to prick or ^(B)a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbours ^(C)who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.