Deuteronomy 7:21 (GNV)

Passage

Thou shalt not feare them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a God mightie and dreadful.

Nearby Context

Deuteronomy 7:19 The great tentations which thine eyes sawe, and the signes and wonders, and the mighty hand and stretched out arme, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do vnto all ye people, whose face thou fearest.

Deuteronomy 7:20 Moreouer, the Lord thy God will send hornets among them vntil they that are left, and hide themselues from thee, be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 7:21 Thou shalt not feare them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a God mightie and dreadful.

Deuteronomy 7:22 And the Lord thy God wil roote out these nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, least the beasts of the fielde increase vpon thee.

Deuteronomy 7:23 But the Lord thy God shall giue them before thee, and shall destroy them with a mightie destruction, vntill they be brought to naught.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thou", "shalt", "feare", "lord", "mightie", and "dreadful". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thou" and "shalt", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 20's "Moreouer the Lord thy God will send..." into verse 22's "And the Lord thy God wil roote...", so "thou" and "shalt" belong inside that flow. In Deuteronomy context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "thou" and "shalt" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.