Deuteronomy 7:17
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New International Version (©2011)
You may say to yourselves, "These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?"

New Living Translation (©2007)
Perhaps you will think to yourselves, 'How can we ever conquer these nations that are so much more powerful than we are?'

English Standard Version (©2001)
“If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater 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?'

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
If you say to yourself, 'These nations are greater than I; how can I drive them out?'

International Standard Version (©2012)
"You may say to yourselves, 'These nations are more numerous than we are. How can we dispossess them?'

NET Bible (©2006)
If you think, "These nations are more numerous than I--how can I dispossess them?"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You may say to yourselves, "These nations outnumber us. How can we force them out?"

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

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

American Standard Version
If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more 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?

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

English Revised Version
If thou shalt say in thine 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?

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

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

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:12-26 We are in danger of having fellowship with the works of darkness if we take pleasure in fellowship with those who do such works. Whatever brings us into a snare, brings us under a curse. Let us be constant to our duty, and we cannot question the constancy of God's mercy. Diseases are God's servants; they go where he sends them, and do what he bids them. It is therefore good for the health of our bodies, thoroughly to mortify the sin of our souls; which is our rule of duty. Yet sin is never totally destroyed in this world; and it actually prevails in us much more than it would do, if we were watchful and diligent. In all this the Lord acts according to the counsel of his own will; but that counsel being hid from us, forms no excuse for our sloth and negligence, of which it is in no degree the cause. We must not think, that because the deliverance of the church, and the destruction of the enemies of the soul, are not done immediately, therefore they will never be done. God will do his own work in his own method and time; and we may be sure that they are always the best. Thus corruption is driven out of the hearts of believers by little and little. The work of sanctification is carried on gradually; but at length there will be a complete victory. Pride, security, and other sins that are common effects of prosperity, are enemies more dangerous than beasts of the field, and more apt to increase upon us.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 17, 18. - If thou shalt say in thine heart. The thought might rise in their minds, How can we ever compete with nations so much more powerful than we? But such thoughts they must repress, remembering what God had done for them to Pharaoh and the Egyptians, and resting assured that the same would he do to the Canaanites.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.

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God's Promises
…16And you shall consume all the people which the LORD your God shall deliver you; your eye shall have no pity on them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you. 17If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? 18You shall not be afraid of them: but shall well remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt; …

Numbers 33:53 Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.
Jeremiah 13:22 And if you ask yourself, "Why has this happened to me?"-- it is because of your many sins that your skirts have been torn off and your body mistreated.