17`When thou sayest in thine heart, These nations [are] more numerous than I, how am I able to dispossess them? --
18thou art not afraid of them; thou dost surely remember that which Jehovah thy God hath done to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt,
19the great trials which thine eyes have seen, and the signs, and the wonders, and the strong hand, and the stretched-out arm, with which Jehovah thy God hath brought thee out; so doth Jehovah thy God to all the peoples of whose presence thou art afraid.
20`And also the locust doth Jehovah thy God send among them, till the destruction of those who are left, and of those who are hidden from thy presence;
21thou art not terrified by their presence, for Jehovah thy God [is] in thy midst, a God great and fearful.
22`And Jehovah thy God hath cast out these nations from thy presence little [by] little, (thou art not able to consume them hastily, lest the beast of the field multiply against thee),
23and Jehovah thy God hath given them before thee, and destroyed them -- a great destruction -- till their destruction;