Deuteronomy 9

Gen Z: Deuteronomy 9

1Yo, Israel, it’s time to cross the Jordan today and take over some dope nations way stronger than you, cities that are literally sky-high.

2These peeps are tall and massive, the Anakims, you know them, and like, who can even deal with the Anak kids?

3So get this, fam: the Lord your God is rolling ahead of you like a fire that vibes hard, wiping them out, so you can kick them out quick, just like He said.

4Don’t be in your feels thinking the Lord kicked them out for your rizz; it’s ‘cause these nations are sus that He’s driving them out.

5You’re not getting their land ‘cause you’re all that or have a good heart; it’s ‘cause these nations are wicked, and God’s keeping His promise to your fam, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

6Just know, the Lord ain’t giving you this lit land ‘cause you’re righteous; you’re kinda stubborn, no cap.

7Don’t forget how you made the Lord mad in the wild; since you bounced from Egypt, you’ve been acting up against Him.

8Even at Horeb, you made the Lord angry, and He was ready to wipe you out, fr.

9When I went up the mountain to grab the stone tablets, the ones with the covenant, I was chilling up there for forty days and nights, no food or water, just vibes.

10The Lord hooked me up with two stone tablets, written by His finger; all the words He said to you in the fire on the mountain during the assembly were on them.

11After forty days and forty nights, the Lord dropped me the two stone tablets, aka the covenant vibes.

12The Lord told me, "Yo, get down there quick! Your peeps from Egypt are acting sus and made a molten image."

13The Lord said, "I've peeped this crew, and they’re hella stiff-necked."

14"Just let me wipe them out and create a way stronger nation from you, no cap."

15So I dipped from the mount, and it was lit with fire; I was holding the two tablets in my hands.

16I saw y'all had straight-up sinned against the Lord, making a molten calf and turning away from His ways real quick.

17I tossed the tablets out of my hands and broke them right in front of you.

18I fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights, no food or drink, 'cause of all your wickedness that made Him mad.

19I was shook by the Lord's anger, ready to wipe you out, but He listened to me that time too.

20The Lord was super mad at Aaron, but I prayed for him too, fr.

21I took your sins, that calf you made, and straight-up burned it, crushed it down to dust, and tossed that dust into the stream, no cap.

22At Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth–hattaavah, you made the Lord mad, fr.

23When the Lord told you to go take the land He promised, you straight-up rebelled and didn't listen, sus vibes.

24You've been acting out against the Lord since the day I met you, periodt.

25So I went hard, praying for forty days and nights, just like the first time, 'cause the Lord said He'd wipe you out.

26I prayed to the Lord, saying, "Yo, don’t destroy your people and the crew you brought out of Egypt with serious power."

27Remember your OGs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; don’t peep the stubbornness and wickedness of this crew.

28Or else the land we came from will be like, "The Lord couldn't get them to the promised land 'cause He was over it," and that's just savage.

29But they’re still your people and your inheritance, brought out with mad power and a flexed arm.

KJV: Deuteronomy 9

1Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,

2A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!

3Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath said unto thee.

4Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from before thee.

5Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

6Understand therefore, that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.

7Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the Lord.

8Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to have destroyed you.

9When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:

10And the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the Lord spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

11And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.

12And the Lord said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.

13Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

14Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.

15So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

16And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the Lord had commanded you.

17And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

18And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

19For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to destroy you. But the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also.

20And the Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.

21And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth–hattaavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath.

23Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadesh–barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

24Ye have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.

25Thus I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the Lord had said he would destroy you.

26I prayed therefore unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

27Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:

28Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

29Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.

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