"It Is Not Because of Your Righteousness Or Your Integrity"

After the Lord your God has driven them out before you,

do not say to yourself,

"The Lord has brought me here

to take possession of this land

because of my righteousness."

No, it is on account of the wickedness of these nations

that the Lord is going to drive them out before you.

It is not because of your righteousness

or your integrity

that you are going in to take possession their land;

but on account of the wickedness of these nations,

the Lord your God will drive them out before you,

to accomplish what He swore to your fathers,

to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Understand, then,

that is not because of your righteousness

that the Lord your God

is giving you this good land to possess,

for you are a stiff-necked people.

(Deuteronomy 9:4-6)