Deuteronomy 7:17

The NET Bible®

If you think, "These nations are more numerous than I—how can I dispossess them?"

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
"If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are more numerous than I; how can I dispossess them?'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If you should say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?'

Bishop's Bible (1568)
If thou say in thine heart: these nations are mo then I, howe can I cast them out?

Easy-to-Read Version
"Don't say in your heart, ‘These nations are stronger than we are. How can we force them out?'

Revised Standard Version
"If you say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?'

World English Bible
If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

King James Version (1611)
If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are moe then I, howe can I dispossesse them?

King James Version
If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf thou shalt saye in thyne hert: These nacios are mo then I, how ca I dryue them out?

THE MESSAGE
You're going to think to yourselves, "Oh! We're outnumbered ten to one by these nations! We'll never even make a dent in them!" But I'm telling you, Don't be afraid. Remember, yes, remember in detail what God , your God, did to Pharaoh and all Egypt. Remember the great contests to which you were eyewitnesses: the miracle-signs, the wonders, God 's mighty hand as he stretched out his arm and took you out of there. God , your God, is going to do the same thing to these people you're now so afraid of.

American Standard Version
If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

Bible in Basic English
If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them?

Update Bible Version
If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

Webster's Bible Translation
If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations [are] more than I, how can I dispossess them?

New King James Version
"If you should say in your heart, "These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?'--

Contemporary English Version
You may be thinking, "How can we destroy these nations? They are more powerful than we are."

Complete Jewish Bible
If you think to yourselves, ‘These nations outnumber us; how can we dispossess them?'

Darby Translation
If thou shouldest say in thy heart, These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?

Geneva Bible (1587)
If thou say in thine heart, These nations are moe then I, how can I cast them out?

George Lamsa Translation
If you shall say in your heart, These nations are greater than I; how will I be able to destroy them?

Good News Translation
"Do not tell yourselves that these peoples outnumber you and that you cannot drive them out.

Amplified Bible
"If you say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I am; how can I dispossess them?'

Hebrew Names Version
If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
If thou shalt say in thy heart: 'These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?'

New Living Translation
Perhaps you will think to yourselves, ‘How can we ever conquer these nations that are so much more powerful than we are?'

New Life Bible
"You may say in your heart, ‘These nations are stronger than I. How can I drive them out?'

New Revised Standard
If you say to yourself, "These nations are more numerous than I; how can I dispossess them?"

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But if thou shouldest say in thine heart, This nation is greater than I, how shall I be able to destroy them utterly?

English Revised Version
If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

Berean Standard Bible
You may say in your heart, "These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Although thou mightest say in thy heart: More in number, are these nations than I, - how can, I dispossess them?

Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I, how shall I be able to destroy them?

Lexham English Bible
"If you think in your heart, ‘These nations are more numerous than I, so how can I dispossess them?'

Literal Translation
If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more plentiful than I; how can I throw them out?

English Standard Version
"If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?'

New American Standard Bible
"If you say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?'

New Century Version
You might say to yourselves, "Because these nations are stronger than we are, we can't force them out."

Christian Standard Bible®
"If you say to yourself, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I drive them out?'

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If thou seist in thin herte, These folkis ben mo than Y, hou may Y do awei hem?

Young's Literal Translation
`When thou sayest in thine heart, These nations [are] more numerous than I, how am I able to dispossess them? --

Contextual Overview

¹² If you obey these ordinances and are careful to do them, the Lord your God will faithfully keep covenant with you as he promised your ancestors. ¹³ He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you. ¹⁴ You will be blessed beyond all peoples; there will be no barrenness among you or your livestock. ¹⁵ The Lord will protect you from all sickness, and you will not experience any of the terrible diseases that you knew in Egypt; instead he will inflict them on all those who hate you. ¹⁶ You must destroy all the people whom the Lord your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you. ¹⁷ If you think, "These nations are more numerous than I—how can I dispossess them?" ¹⁸ you must not fear them. You must carefully recall what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt, ¹⁹ the great judgments you saw, the signs and wonders, the strength and power by which he brought you out—thus the Lord your God will do to all the people you fear. ²⁰ Furthermore, the Lord your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish. ²¹ You must not tremble in their presence, for the Lord your God, who is present among you, is a great and awesome God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou shalt: Deuteronomy 8:17, Deuteronomy 15:9, Deuteronomy 18:21, Isaiah 14:13, Isaiah 47:8, Isaiah 49:21, Jeremiah 13:22, Luke 9:47

These nations: Numbers 13:32, Numbers 33:53, Joshua 17:16-18

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made."

Genesis 7:12
And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If thou shall say in thine heart,.... Should have secret thoughts arise in the heart, misgivings of heart, fears and doubts there, which, though not outwardly expressed, might be inwardly retained:

these nations are more than I; seven to one, and perhaps anyone of them as powerful as Israel:

how can I dispossess them? of the land they inherit, and take possession of it.