Numbers 33:55

KJV1611 – Modern English

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them shall become irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land where you live.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those that ye let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    But and yf ye will not dryue out the inhabiters of ye londe before you then these which ye let remayne of the shalbe thornes in youre eyes and dartes in youre sydes and shall vexe you in the lode wherein ye dwell.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    But yf ye wyll not dryue out the inhabiters of ye lande before yor face, then they who ye suffre to remayne, shall be come thornes in youre eyes, and dartes in youre sydes, & shall vexe you in the londe where ye dwell.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    But if ye will not driue out the inhabitants of the land before you, then those which yee let ramaine of them, shalbe prickes in your eyes, and thornes in your sides, and shall vexe you in the land wherein ye dwell.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    But and if ye wyll not dryue out the inhabiters of the lande before you, then those whiche ye let remayne of them, shalbe prickes in your eyes, and dartes in your sides, and shall vexe you in the lande wherein ye dwell.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them [shall be] pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those who you let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land in which you dwell.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `And if ye do not dispossess the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it hath been, those whom ye let remain of them, `are' for pricks in your eyes, and for thorns in your sides, and they have distressed you on the land in which ye are dwelling,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those that ye let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those that ye let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land, then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in the land where you are living.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land in which you dwell.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, then those whom you allow to remain will be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your side, and will cause you trouble in the land where you will be living.

Referenced Verses

  • Judg 2:3 : 3 Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.
  • Ps 106:34-36 : 34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them. 35 But they were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. 36 And they served their idols, which were a snare to them.
  • Ezek 28:24 : 24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
  • Exod 23:33 : 33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.
  • Deut 7:16 : 16 And you shall consume all the people which the LORD your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall have no pity on them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.
  • Josh 23:12-13 : 12 Otherwise, if you do at all turn back, and join to the remnant of these nations, even those that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you: 13 Know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
  • Judg 1:21-36 : 21 And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day. 22 And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel; and the LORD was with them. 23 And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.) 24 And the spies saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him, Show us, we pray you, the entrance into the city, and we will show you mercy. 25 And when he showed them the entrance into the city, they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family. 26 And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day. 27 Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean and its towns, nor Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but the Canaanites were determined to dwell in that land. 28 And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and did not utterly drive them out. 29 Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them. 30 Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became forced laborers. 31 Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob. 32 But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out. 33 Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; nevertheless the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became forced laborers to them. 34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain; for they would not allow them to come down to the valley. 35 But the Amorites were determined to dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became forced laborers. 36 And the boundary of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
  • Deut 7:4 : 4 For they will turn your son away from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and destroy you suddenly.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 2:3
    82%

    3Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.

  • Josh 23:13
    79%

    13Know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.

  • Num 33:56
    79%

    56Moreover, it shall come to pass, that I will do to you as I thought to do to them.

  • Num 33:52-53
    2 verses
    75%

    52then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their carved images, and destroy all their molten images, and thoroughly demolish all their high places:

    53and you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.

  • Josh 23:5
    75%

    5And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you and drive them from out of your sight; and you shall possess their land, as the LORD your God has promised you.

  • Exod 23:33
    74%

    33They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.

  • Exod 23:27-30
    4 verses
    74%

    27I will send my fear before you and will cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

    28And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you.

    29I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals multiply against you.

    30Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land.

  • Lev 26:36-39
    4 verses
    73%

    36And upon those who are left alive of you I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one flees from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursues.

    37And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursues: and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

    38And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

    39And those who are left of you shall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they waste away with them.

  • Deut 11:23
    72%

    23Then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall possess greater and mightier nations than yourselves.

  • Deut 7:20
    72%

    20Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves from you, are destroyed.

  • Num 32:15
    72%

    15For if you turn away from following him, he will again leave them in the wilderness, and you will have destroyed all this people.

  • Lev 19:33
    72%

    33And if a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him.

  • Deut 9:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying, Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land: but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD drives them out from before you.

    5It is not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, that you go to possess their land: but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Deut 28:33-35
    3 verses
    71%

    33The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall a nation which you know not eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always:

    34So that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.

    35The LORD shall strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a severe boil that cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot unto the top of your head.

  • Deut 7:17
    71%

    17If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

  • Lev 18:28
    71%

    28That the land not spew you out also, when you defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you.

  • Exod 34:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11Observe what I command you this day: behold, I am driving out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

    12Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst.

  • Deut 12:29
    71%

    29When the LORD your God cuts off the nations from before you, where you go to dispossess them, and you take their place and dwell in their land;

  • Deut 28:51
    71%

    51And he shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed: which also shall not leave you either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of your kine, or flocks of your sheep, until he has destroyed you.

  • Deut 28:63
    71%

    63And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go to possess it.

  • Exod 33:2
    71%

    2And I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

  • Deut 28:65
    71%

    65And among these nations shall you find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest: but the LORD shall give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

  • Exod 23:23
    71%

    23For my angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.

  • Num 32:30
    71%

    30But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.

  • Deut 28:21
    71%

    21The LORD shall make the pestilence cling unto you, until He has consumed you from off the land, where you go to possess it.

  • Lev 26:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning fever, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

    17And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies: those that hate you shall reign over you; and you shall flee when none pursues you.

  • Ps 78:55
    71%

    55He cast out the nations also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

  • Deut 28:25
    70%

    25The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Deut 4:27
    70%

    27And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the heathen, where the LORD shall lead you.

  • Lev 26:33
    70%

    33And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

  • Lev 20:23
    70%

    23And you shall not walk in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

  • Deut 1:39
    70%

    39Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.

  • Deut 4:38
    70%

    38To drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.

  • Deut 11:31
    70%

    31For you shall pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it.

  • Num 35:34
    70%

    34Therefore do not defile the land which you shall inhabit, where I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.

  • Isa 7:25
    70%

    25And on all hills that shall be dug with the mattock, there shall not come the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

  • Deut 6:19
    70%

    19To cast out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.

  • Num 25:17
    70%

    17Harass the Midianites, and strike them: