Deuteronomy Chapter 9
9:1 | Hear, O ![]() ![]() ![]() |
9:2 | A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and [of whom] thou hast heard [say], Who can stand before the children of Anak! |
9:3 | Understand therefore this ![]() |
9:4 | Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee. |
9:5 | Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. |
9:6 | Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou ![]() |
9:7 | Remember, [and] forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the ![]() |
9:8 | Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you. |
9:9 | When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, [even] the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
9:10 | And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the ![]() |
9:11 | And it came to pass at the end of forty ![]() |
9:12 | And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted [themselves]; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. |
9:13 | Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it [is] a stiffnecked people: |
9:14 | Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they. |
9:15 | So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant [were] in my two hands. |
9:16 | And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, [and] had made you a molten ![]() |
9:17 | And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. |
9:18 | And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
9:19 | For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that ![]() |
9:20 | And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same ![]() |
9:21 | And I took your sin, the ![]() |
9:22 | And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. |
9:23 | Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. |
9:24 | Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the ![]() |
9:25 | Thus I fell down before the LORD forty ![]() |
9:26 | I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. |
9:27 | Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin: |
9:28 | Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. |
9:29 | Yet they [are] thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty ![]() |