13 know for certain that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations out before you. They will become a snare and a trap for you,(A) a scourge for your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you disappear from this good land the Lord your God has given you.

14 “I am now going the way of all the earth,[a](B) and you know with all your heart and all your soul that none of the good promises the Lord your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.(C) 15 Since every good thing the Lord your God promised you has come about, so He will bring on you every bad thing until He has annihilated you from this good land the Lord your God has given you.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 23:14 = I am going to die

13 then you may be sure that the Lord your God will no longer drive out(A) these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares(B) and traps for you, whips on your backs and thorns in your eyes,(C) until you perish from this good land,(D) which the Lord your God has given you.

14 “Now I am about to go the way of all the earth.(E) You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the Lord your God gave you has failed. Every promise(F) has been fulfilled; not one has failed.(G) 15 But just as all the good things(H) the Lord your God has promised you have come to you, so he will bring on you all the evil things(I) he has threatened, until the Lord your God has destroyed you(J) from this good land he has given you.(K)

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