05:009:001 Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go
in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself,
cities great and fenced up to heaven,
05:009:002 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!
05:009:003 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he
which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall
destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so
shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the
LORD hath said unto thee.
05:009:004 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.
05:009:005 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.
05:009:006 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not
this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou
art a stiffnecked people.
05:009:007 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God
to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst
depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this
place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
05:009:008 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD
was angry with you to have destroyed you.
05:009:009 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 days and forty
nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
05:009:010 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 day of the assembly.
05:009:011 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights,
that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables
of the covenant.
05:009:012 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.
05:009:013 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this
people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
05:009:014 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.
05:009:015 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.
05:009:016 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your
God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside
quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
05:009:017 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands,
and brake them before your eyes.
05:009:018 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days
and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water,
because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in
the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
05:009:019 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 time also.
05:009:020 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him:
and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
05:009:021 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it
with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even
until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof
into the brook that descended out of the mount.
05:009:022 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye
provoked the LORD to wrath.
05:009:023 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.
05:009:024 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I
knew you.
05:009:025 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights,
as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he
would destroy you.
05:009:026 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.
05:009:027 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not
unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness,
nor to their sin:
05:009:028 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.
05:009:029 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou
broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out
arm.