The .ix. Chapter.
SPeake not thou in thy harte (after that the lorde thy god hathe caste them oute before thee) saying: for my righteousne•• the lorde hathe brought me in, to possesse this land. Naye, but for the wickednesse of these nacions, the lorde hathe caste them out before thee. It is not for thy righ∣teousnesse sake, or for thy righte harte, that thou goest to possesse theyr lande, but for the wicked∣nesse of these nacions, the lorde thy god doth cast them out before thee, euen to performe the word whiche the lorde thy god sware vnto thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob.
Fortye dayes and forty nightes I did neyther eate breade nor drynke water, because of all your synnes whiche ye synned in doyng wickedly in the sighte of the lorde in that ye prouoked hym vnto wrathe.