In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see.

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

Now if you say to yourselves, ¹  ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’ ²  –

Do not think to yourself after the Lord your God has driven them out before you, “Because of my own righteousness the Lord has brought me here to possess this land.” It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you.