³² I want you to know that I am not doing this for your sake, declares the Sovereign Lord. Be ashamed^(A) and disgraced for your conduct, people of Israel!^(B)

⁵ It is not because of your righteousness or your integrity^(A) that you are going in to take possession of their land; but on account of the wickedness^(B) of these nations,^(C) the Lord your God will drive them out^(D) before you, to accomplish what he swore^(E) to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.^(F)