Deuteronomy 7:15-17

The Voice

¹⁵ The Eternal will keep every illness away from you. He won’t afflict you with any of those horrible diseases you saw in Egypt—He’ll put them instead on those who hate you! ¹⁶ You are to destroy all the nations the Eternal, your True God, puts in your power. Don’t show them any pity! You must not worship their gods—that behavior is a deadly trap!

¹⁷ You might say to yourselves, “Those nations are so much more powerful than we are! How can we ever displace them in the land?”