²¹ So don’t be so terrified of these other nations—the Eternal your God is with you. He’s a great and awesome God! ²² But He will drive out these nations ahead of you only little by little. You won’t be able to finish them off all at once because if you did, the wild animals would reproduce rapidly in the empty land and that would be dangerous. ²³ But the Eternal your God definitely will defeat these nations in front of you. He will throw them into a great panic until they are all destroyed.