Deuteronomy 7:21 (WEB)

Passage

You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is among you, a great and awesome God.

Nearby Context

Deuteronomy 7:19 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

Deuteronomy 7:20 Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.

Deuteronomy 7:21 You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is among you, a great and awesome God.

Deuteronomy 7:22 Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.

Deuteronomy 7:23 But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "shall", "scared", "yahweh", "great", and "awesome". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "shall" and "scared", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 20's "Moreover Yahweh your God will send the..." into verse 22's "Yahweh your God will cast out those...", so "shall" and "scared" 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 "shall" and "scared" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.