17You may say to yourselves, "These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?"


In Context

14 You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor any of your livestock without young.

15 The Lord will keep you free from every disease. He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all who hate you.

16 You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God gives over to you. Do not look on them with pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

17 You may say to yourselves, "These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?"

18 But do not be afraid of them; remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.

19 You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the miraculous signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the Lord your God brought you out. The Lord your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.

Deuteronomy 7:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:17If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations [are] more than I; how can I dispossess them?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:17If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I, how shall I be able to destroy them?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:17If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:17If thou shouldest say in thy heart, These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:17If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:17If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I, how can I dispossess them?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:17If you shall say in your heart, |These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:17When thou sayest in thine heart, These nations are more numerous than I, how am I able to dispossess them? —

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:17If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?