9:3 Understand today that the Lord your God who goes before you is a devouring fire; he will defeat and subdue them before you. You will dispossess and destroy them quickly just as he 1 has told you.
Deuteronomy 31:3
31:3 As for the Lord your God, he is about to cross over before you; he will destroy these nations before you and dispossess them. As for Joshua, he is about to cross before you just as the Lord has said.
1 tnHeb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation in keeping with contemporary English style to avoid redundancy.