28 Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt in fear. They say, ‘The people are stronger and taller(A) than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the sky. We even saw the Anakites(B) there.’”

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28 Where can we go up? Our brethren have [a]discouraged our hearts, saying, (A)“The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the (B)Anakim there.” ’

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 1:28 Lit. melted

10 When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build,(A)

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Caution Against Disobedience

10 “So it shall be, when the Lord your God brings you into the land of which He [a]swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities (A)which you did not build,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 6:10 promised

Not Because of Israel’s Righteousness

Hear, Israel: You are now about to cross the Jordan(A) to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you,(B) with large cities(C) that have walls up to the sky.(D)

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Israel’s Rebellions Reviewed(A)

“Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

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Though the pride(A) of the godless person reaches to the heavens(B)
    and his head touches the clouds,(C)

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(A)Though his haughtiness mounts up to the heavens,
And his head reaches to the clouds,

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53 Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens(A)
    and fortifies her lofty stronghold,
    I will send destroyers(B) against her,”
declares the Lord.

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53 (A)Though Babylon were to [a]mount up to heaven,
And though she were to fortify the height of her strength,
Yet from Me plunderers would come to her,” says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:53 ascend