But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?

If you think, “These nations are more numerous than I – how can I dispossess them?”

Now if you say to yourselves, ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’ –

How can one man chase a thousand of them, and two pursue ten thousand; unless their Rock had delivered them up, and the Lord had handed them over?

After they have been destroyed from your presence, be careful not to be ensnared like they are; do not pursue their gods and say, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do the same.”