4 “Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out before you, ^g‘It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,’ whereas it is ^hbecause of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out before you.

2 The Lord said to Gideon, “The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, ^hlest Israel boast over me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’