Deuteronomy 9:1-6 - Warning Against Self-Righteousness

¹ Hear, Israel: Thou passest this day over Jordan to go to possess nations great and strong above thee; cities great and fortified to the heavens: ² A people great and high, sons of Anakims, whom thou knewest, and thou heardest, Who shall stand before the sons of Anak? ³ And know thou this day that Jehovah thy God he is passing over before thee; he is a consuming fire, he will destroy them, and he will humble them before thy face, and drive them out and destroy them quickly, as Jehovah spake to thee. ⁴ Thou shalt not say in thy heart in Jehovah thy God's thrusting them out from before thee, saying, For my justice Jehovah brought me forth to possess this land; and for the injustice of these nations Jehovah dispossessed them from before thee. ⁵ Not for thy justice and for the straightness of thy heart thou goest in to possess this land, but for the injustice of these nations Jehovah thy God dispossesses them from before thee, and order to lift up the word which he sware to thy fathers, to Abraham and to Isaak and to Jacob. ⁶ And know thou that not for thy justice did Jehovah thy God five to thee this good land to possess it; for thou a people of a hard neck.