Catholic Public Domain Version
"For this reason, I am not willing to destroy them before your face, so that you may have enemies, and so that their gods may be your ruin.” "
— Judges 2:3, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Wherefore 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 unto you.”
“Wherefore 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 unto you. ”
“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."”
“At that time I also warned you,‘If you disobey, I will not drive out the Canaanites before you. They will ensnare you and their gods will lure you away.’””
“Wherefore I would not destroy them from before your face; that you may have enemies, and their gods may be your ruin.”
“And so I have said, I will not send them out from before you; but they will be a danger to you, and their gods will be a cause of falling to you.”
“Wherefore 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 unto you.”
And an Angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to the Place of Weeping, and he said: “I led you away from Egypt, and I led you into the land, about which I swore to your fathers. And I promised that I would not nullify my covenant with you, even forever:
but only if you would not form a pact with the inhabitants of this land. Instead, you should overturn their altars. Yet you were not willing to listen to my voice. Why have you done this?
For this reason, I am not willing to destroy them before your face, so that you may have enemies, and so that their gods may be your ruin.”
And when the Angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, they lifted up their voice, and they wept.
And the name of that place was called, the Place of Weeping, or the Place of Tears. And they immolated victims to the Lord in that place.
Then Joshua dismissed the people, and the sons of Israel went away, each one to his own possession, so that they might obtain it.