Numbers 33:55 - The Scriptures 1998

⁵⁵ ‘And if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵⁵ But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵⁵ But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them shall be as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land in which you dwell.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵⁵ But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those that ye let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

Common English Bible

⁵⁵ But if you don’t drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, then those you allow to remain will prick your eyes and be thorns in your side. They will harass you in the land in which you are living.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵⁵ But if you are not willing to put to death the inhabitants of the land, those who remain shall be to you like spikes in your eyes and lances in your sides, and they shall be adversaries to you in the land of your habitation.

Numbers 33:55 Cross References

Exodus 23:33

“Let them not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me when you serve their mighty ones, when it becomes a snare to you.”

Ezekiel 28:24

“And there shall no longer be a pricking brier or a paining thorn for the house of Yisra’ĕ

Numbers 33:56

‘And it shall be that I do to you as I thought to do to them.’ ”

2 Corinthians 12:7

And to keep me from exalting myself because of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to hit me, to keep me from exalting myself.

Deuteronomy 7:16

“And you shall consume all the peoples whom יהוה  your Elohim is delivering over to you – your eye shall not pardon them. And do not serve their mighty ones, for that is a snare to you.

Deuteronomy 7:4

for he turns your sons away from following Me, to serve other mighty ones. Then the displeasure of יהוה  shall burn against you and promptly destroy you.

Joshua 23:7

so as not to go in among these nations, these who remain among you. And make no mention of the name of their mighty ones,a nor swear by them, nor serve them nor bow down to them.

Judges 2:3

“Therefore I also said, ‘I am not driving them out before you, and they shall be adversaries to you, and their mighty ones shall be a snare to you.’ ”