⁵⁵ But if you don’t drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become thorns in your eyes and in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you will live.

²⁴ “The house of Israel will no longer be hurt by^[a] prickly briers or painful thorns^(A) from all their neighbors who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.

³ For we are the circumcision,^(A) the ones who serve by the Spirit^(B) of God, boast in Christ Jesus,^(C) and do not put confidence in the flesh—