³ Know therefore today that ^(A)it is the Lord your God who is crossing over before you as ^(B)a consuming fire. He will destroy them and He will subdue them before you, so that ^(C)you may drive them out and destroy them quickly, just as the Lord has spoken to you.

⁴ “^(D)Do not say in your heart when the Lord your God has driven them out before ^[a]you, ‘Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,’ but it is ^(E)because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is dispossessing them before you. ⁵ It is ^(F)not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God is driving them out before you, in order to confirm ^(G)the ^[b]oath which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.