You are not going to take possession of their land because of your righteousness or your integrity. Instead, the Lord your God will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness, in order to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Yet the Lord was devoted to your fathers and loved them. He chose their descendants after them—He chose you out of all the peoples, as it is today.

you offspring of Abraham His servant,
Jacob’s descendants—His chosen ones.

But you, Israel, My servant,
Jacob, whom I have chosen,
descendant of Abraham, My friend—

“At that time”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”

“I have loved you,” says the Lord.

But you ask: “How have You loved us?”

“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” This is the Lord’s declaration. “Even so, I loved Jacob,

He has dealt mercifully with our fathers
and remembered His holy covenant—

The ancestors are theirs, and from them, by physical descent, came the Messiah, who is God over all, praised forever.

Amen.

And brought

Then Moses said to the people, “Remember this day when you came out of Egypt, out of the place of slavery, for the Lord brought you out of here by the strength of His hand. Nothing leavened may be eaten.

In his sight

For the eyes of Yahweh roam throughout the earth to show Himself strong for those whose hearts are completely His. You have been foolish in this matter. Therefore, you will have wars from now on.”

I will instruct you and show you the way to go;
with My eye on you, I will give counsel.

The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and His ears are open to their cry for help.

With his

Or has a god attempted to go and take a nation as his own out of another nation, by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, by great terrors, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

When Israel came out of Egypt—
the house of Jacob from a people
who spoke a foreign language—

He struck the firstborn of the Egyptians
His love is eternal.

Wake up, wake up!
Put on the strength of the Lord’s power.
Wake up as in days past,
as in generations of long ago.
Wasn’t it You who hacked Rahab to pieces,
who pierced the sea monster?

Then He remembered the days of the past,
the days of Moses and his people.
Where is He who brought them out of the sea
with the shepherds of His flock?
Where is He who put His Holy Spirit among the flock?

General references

Yet the Lord was devoted to your fathers and loved them. He chose their descendants after them—He chose you out of all the peoples, as it is today.