“ If you say to yourself,‘ These nations are greater than I; how can I drive them out?’

“你若心里说，这些国的民比我更多，我怎能赶出他们呢？

“你若心里说，这些国的人数比我多，我怎能赶出他们呢？

“你若心里说，这些国的人数比我多，我怎能赶出他们呢？

“也许你们心里会说，‘这些民族都比我们强大，我们怎能赶走他们呢？’

“如果你心里说：‘这些国的人比我多，我怎能把他们赶出去呢？’

「你若心裏說，這些國的民比我更多，我怎能趕出他們呢？

「你若心裏說，這些國的人數比我多，我怎能趕出他們呢？

「你若心裏說，這些國的人數比我多，我怎能趕出他們呢？

「也許你們心裡會說，『這些民族都比我們強大，我們怎能趕走他們呢？』

“如果你心裡說：‘這些國的人比我多，我怎能把他們趕出去呢？’

『你若心裏說：「這些國的人比我多；我怎能把他們趕出呢？」

爾若意謂、此諸族較多於我、何能驅逐、

勿意謂斯民、較我眾多、曷能驅逐。

爾若意謂此諸國之民、較我眾多、何能驅逐、

You may say to yourselves,“ These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?”

You might say to yourselves,“ These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?”

“ If you say in your heart,‘ These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?’

Perhaps you will think to yourselves,‘ How can we ever conquer these nations that are so much more powerful than we are?’

“ If you say in your heart,‘ These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’

“ If you should say in your heart,‘ These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’—

If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

“ If you say to yourself,‘ These nations are greater than I; how can I drive them out?’

If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations[ are] more than I; how can I dispossess them?

If you think,“ These nations are more numerous than I– how can I dispossess them?”

If you shall say in your heart,“ These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”

You are to take possession of the land and settle in it because I have given you the land to possess.

So they gave a negative report to the Israelites about the land they had scouted:“ The land we passed through to explore is one that devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw in it are men of great size.

But Jesus, knowing their inner thoughts, took a little child and had him stand next to him.

You may say to yourself,‘ My power and my own ability have gained this wealth for me,’

You may say to yourself,‘ How can we recognize a message the LORD has not spoken?’

Be careful that there isn’t this wicked thought in your heart,‘ The seventh year, the year of canceling debts, is near,’ and you are stingy toward your poor brother and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty.

You said to yourself,“ I will ascend to the heavens; I will set up my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of the gods’ assembly, in the remotest parts of the North.

But the descendants of Joseph said,“ The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who inhabit the valley area have iron chariots, both at Beth-shean with its surrounding villages and in the Jezreel Valley.”So Joshua replied to Joseph’s family( that is, Ephraim and Manasseh),“ You have many people and great strength. You will not have just one allotment,because the hill country will be yours also. It is a forest; clear it and its outlying areas will be yours. You can also drive out the Canaanites, even though they have iron chariots and are strong.”

Then you will say within yourself,‘ Who fathered these for me? I was deprived of my children and unable to conceive, exiled and wandering— but who brought them up? See, I was left by myself— but these, where did they come from?’”

“ So now hear this, lover of luxury, who sits securely, who says to herself,‘ I am, and there is no one else. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’

And when you ask yourself,“ Why have these things happened to me?” it is because of your great guilt that your skirts have been stripped off, your body exposed.