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Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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English Standard Version

Deuteronomy 7:21

You shall not be in dread of them, for the Lord your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Contingencies;   Faith;   God;   God Continued...;   War;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Synagogue;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Great;   Terrible;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Commandments, the 613;   Shekinah;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall not be scared of them; for the LORD your God is in the midst of you, a great and awesome God.
King James Version
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
Lexham English Bible
You must not be in dread from the presence of them, because Yahweh your God, who is in your midst, is a great and awesome God.
New Century Version
Don't be afraid of them, because the Lord your God is with you; he is a great God and people are afraid of him.
New English Translation
You must not tremble in their presence, for the Lord your God, who is present among you, is a great and awesome God.
Amplified Bible
"You shall not dread them, for the LORD your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.
New American Standard Bible
"You are not to be terrified of them, because the LORD your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt not feare them: for the Lorde thy God is among you, a God mightie & dreadful.
Legacy Standard Bible
You shall not dread them, for Yahweh your God is in your midst, a great and fearsome God.
Contemporary English Version
So don't be frightened when you meet them in battle. The Lord your God is great and fearsome, and he will fight at your side.
Complete Jewish Bible
You are not to be frightened of them, because Adonai your God is there with you, a God great and fearsome.
Darby Translation
Thou shalt not be afraid of them; for Jehovah thy God is in thy midst, a God great and terrible.
Easy-to-Read Version
Don't be afraid of them, because the Lord your God is with you. He is a great and awesome God.
George Lamsa Translation
You shall not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God is among you, a great and terrible God.
Good News Translation
So do not be afraid of these people. The Lord your God is with you; he is a great God and one to be feared.
Christian Standard Bible®
Don’t be terrified of them, for the Lord your God, a great and awesome God, is among you.
Literal Translation
You shall not tremble before them, for Jehovah your God is among you, a mighty and fearful God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Be not thou afrayed of them: for the LORDE thy God is in the myddes of the, euen the mightie and fearfull God.
American Standard Version
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for Jehovah thy God is in the midst of thee, a great God and a terrible.
Bible in Basic English
Have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, a great God greatly to be feared.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt not feare the: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mightie God and a terrible.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the LORD thy God is in the midst of thee, a God great and awful.
King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt not bee affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mightie God, and terrible.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt not be wounded before them, because the Lord thy God in the midst of thee is a great and powerful God.
English Revised Version
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is in the midst of thee, a great God and a terrible.
Berean Standard Bible
Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt not drede hem, for thi Lord is in the myddis of thee, grete God, and ferdful.
Young's Literal Translation
thou art not terrified by their presence, for Jehovah thy God [is] in thy midst, a God great and fearful.
Update Bible Version
You shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is in the midst of you, a great and awesome God.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God [is] among you, a mighty God and terrible.
World English Bible
You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is in the midst of you, a great and awesome God.
New King James Version
You shall not be terrified of them; for the LORD your God, the great and awesome God, is among you.
New Living Translation
"No, do not be afraid of those nations, for the Lord your God is among you, and he is a great and awesome God.
New Life Bible
You will not be afraid of them. For the Lord your God is among you, a great and powerful God.
New Revised Standard
Have no dread of them, for the Lord your God, who is present with you, is a great and awesome God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou shalt not be affrighted at their presence, - for Yahweh thy God in thy midst is a Go great and to be revered.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not fear them, because the Lord thy God is in the midst of thee, a God mighty and terrible:
Revised Standard Version
You shall not be in dread of them; for the LORD your God is in the midst of you, a great and terrible God.
THE MESSAGE
So don't be intimidated by them. God , your God, is among you— God majestic, God awesome. God , your God, will get rid of these nations, bit by bit. You won't be permitted to wipe them out all at once lest the wild animals take over and overwhelm you. But God , your God, will move them out of your way—he'll throw them into a huge panic until there's nothing left of them. He'll turn their kings over to you and you'll remove all trace of them under Heaven. Not one person will be able to stand up to you; you'll put an end to them all.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall not dread them, for the LORD your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.

Contextual Overview

12 "And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers. 13 He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you. 14 You shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock. 15 And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you. 16 And you shall consume all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you. Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you. 17 "If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?' 18 you shall not be afraid of them but you shall remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt, 19 the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God brought you out. So will the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. 20 Moreover, the Lord your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed. 21 You shall not be in dread of them, for the Lord your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Lord: Numbers 9:20, Numbers 14:9, Numbers 14:14, Numbers 14:42, Numbers 16:3, Numbers 23:21, Joshua 3:10, 2 Chronicles 32:8, Psalms 46:5, Psalms 46:7, Psalms 46:11, Isaiah 8:9, Isaiah 8:10, Zechariah 2:10, Zechariah 2:11, 1 Corinthians 14:25

a mighty God: Deuteronomy 10:17, Deuteronomy 25:8, 1 Samuel 4:8, Nehemiah 1:5, Nehemiah 4:14, Nehemiah 9:32, Zechariah 12:2-5

Reciprocal: Genesis 18:14 - Is Psalms 47:2 - is terrible Psalms 99:3 - thy great Jeremiah 32:18 - the Great

Cross-References

Genesis 6:13
And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 6:17
For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.
Genesis 7:3
and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
Genesis 7:4
For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground."
Genesis 7:6
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.
Genesis 7:7
And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
Genesis 7:15
They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.
Genesis 7:17
The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.
Genesis 7:20
The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.
Genesis 7:22
Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shall not be affrighted at them,.... At their numbers, nor at their gigantic stature:

for the Lord thy God is among you: in the tabernacle, in the holy of holies, which was in the midst of them, and besides would give proof of his powerful presence among them, in protecting them, and destroying their enemies;

a mighty God and terrible; mighty to save his people, and terrible to others.


 
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