How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife?

and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, just as a man carries his son, in all the way which you have walked until you came to this place.’

“If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’

Remember, do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness; from the day that you left the land of Egypt until you arrived at this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.

beware that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise?’

You may say in your heart, ‘How will we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?’

how he met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.

(for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;

For I know your rebellion and your stubbornness; behold, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the Lord; how much more, then, after my death?

“How could one chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless their Rock had sold them,
And the Lord had given them up?