16. You shall devour all the peoples, which the Lord your God will deliver to you. Your eye shall not spare them, neither shall you serve their gods, lest they be your ruin.
17. If you say in your heart, 'These nations are more than I am, so how will I be able to destroy them?'
18. do not be apprehensive. Instead, recall what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all the Egyptians:
19. the very great plagues, which your eyes saw, and the signs and wonders, and the powerful hand and outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God led you away. So will he do to all the peoples, whom you dread.
20. Moreover, the Lord your God will also send hornets among them, until he destroys and scatters all who have escaped from you, or who have been able to hide.
21. You shall not fear them, for the Lord your God is in your midst: a great and terrible God.
22. He himself will consume these nations in your sight, a little at a time, by degrees. You will not be able to destroy them all at once. Otherwise, the wild beasts of the earth might increase against you.
23. And so, the Lord your God will present them in your sight, and you shall slay them until they are thoroughly wiped away.