<p class="poetry">They are a nation devoid of wisdom,p> <p class="poetry">and there is no understanding among them.p>

Furthermore, the <sc>Lordsc> your God will release hornets<n id="1" /> among them until the very last ones who hide from you<n id="2" /> perish.

I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you<n id="1" /> today that you will surely and swiftly be removed<n id="2" /> from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be<n id="3" /> annihilated.

Now if you forget the <sc>Lordsc> your God at all<n id="1" /> and follow other gods, worshiping and prostrating yourselves before them, I testify to you today that you will surely be annihilated.

You must by all means destroy<n id="1" /> all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods &#8211; on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.<n id="2" />

Then you must affirm before the <sc>Lord your Godsc>, &#8220;A wandering<n id="1" /> Aramean<n id="2" /> was my ancestor,<n id="3" /> and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number,<n id="4" /> but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.

I declare to you this very day that you will certainly<n id="1" /> perish! You will not extend your time in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.<n id="2" />