You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far north;
Deuteronomy 7:17 - Revised Standard Version “If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’ Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If you say in your [minds and] hearts, These nations are greater than we are; how can we dispossess them? American Standard Version (1901) If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? Common English Bible If you happen to think to yourself, These nations are greater than we are; how can we possibly possess their land? Catholic Public Domain Version If you say in your heart, 'These nations are more than I am, so how will I be able to destroy them?' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I, how shall I be able to destroy them? |
You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far north;
Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children”:
Then you will say in your heart: ‘Who has borne me these? I was bereaved and barren, exiled and put away, but who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; whence then have these come?’ ”
And if you say in your heart, ‘Why have these things come upon me?’ it is for the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts are lifted up, and you suffer violence.
So they brought to the people of Israel an evil report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.
But the Lord said to Moses, “Do not fear him; for I have given him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.”
and you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it.
But when Jesus perceived the thought of their hearts, he took a child and put him by his side,
Whither are we going up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.” ’
Take heed lest there be a base thought in your heart, and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye be hostile to your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and it be sin in you.
And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?’ —
Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’
and you have seen all that the Lord your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the Lord your God who has fought for you.