Deuteronomy 7:17
Good News Translation
"Do not tell yourselves that these peoples outnumber you and that you cannot drive them out.

New Revised Standard Version
If you say to yourself, “These nations are more numerous 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."

New American Bible
If you say to yourselves, “These nations are more numerous than we. How can we 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?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

thou shalt

Deuteronomy 8:17 Lest thou shouldst say in thy heart: My own might, and the strength of my own hand have achieved all these things for me.

Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought steal in upon thee, and thou say in thy heart: The seventh year of remission draweth nigh; and thou turn away thy eyes from thy poor brother, denying to lend him that which he asketh: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it become a sin unto thee.

Deuteronomy 18:21 And if in silent thought thou answer: How shall I know the word that the Lord hath not spoken?

Isaiah 14:13 And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit in the mountain of the covenant, in the sides of the north.

Isaiah 47:8 And now hear these things, thou that art delicate, and dwellest confidently, that sayest in thy heart: I am, and there is none else besides me: I shall not sit as a widow, and I shall not know barrenness.

Isaiah 49:21 And thou shalt say in thy heart: Who hath begotten these? I was barren and brought not forth, led away, and captive: and who hath brought up these? I was destitute and alone: and these, where were they?

Jeremiah 13:22 And if thou shalt say in thy heart: Why are these things come upon me? For the greatness of thy iniquity, thy nakedness is discovered, the soles of thy feet are defiled.

Luke 9:47 But Jesus seeing the thoughts of their hearts, took a child and set him by him,

these nations

Numbers 13:32 And they spoke ill of the land, which they had viewed, before the children of Israel, saying: The land which we have viewed, devoureth its inhabitants: the people, that we beheld are of a tall stature.

Numbers 33:53 Cleansing the land, and dwelling in it. For I have given it you for a possession.

Joshua 17:16-18 And the children of Joseph answered him: We cannot go up to the mountains, for the Chanaanites that dwell in the low lands, wherein are situate Bethsan with its towns, and Jezrael in the midst of the valley, have chariots of iron. . . .

Context
The Promises of God
16Thou shalt consume all the people, which the Lord thy God will deliver to thee. Thy eye shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serve their gods, lest they be thy ruin. 17If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I, how shall I be able to destroy them?18Fear not, but remember what the Lord thy God did to Pharao and to all the Egyptians,…
Cross References
Numbers 33:53
Cleansing the land, and dwelling in it. For I have given it you for a possession.

Jeremiah 13:22
And if thou shalt say in thy heart: Why are these things come upon me? For the greatness of thy iniquity, thy nakedness is discovered, the soles of thy feet are defiled.

Deuteronomy 7:16
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