Deuteronomy 7:1 (YLT)

Passage

`When Jehovah thy God doth bring thee in unto the land whither thou art going in to possess it, and He hath cast out many nations from thy presence, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mighty than thou,

Nearby Context

Deuteronomy 7:1 `When Jehovah thy God doth bring thee in unto the land whither thou art going in to possess it, and He hath cast out many nations from thy presence, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mighty than thou,

Deuteronomy 7:2 and Jehovah thy God hath given them before thee, and thou hast smitten them--thou dost utterly devote them--thou dost not make with them a covenant, nor dost thou favour them.

Deuteronomy 7:3 `And thou dost not join in marriage with them; thy daughter thou dost not give to his son, and his daughter thou dost not take to thy son,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "jehovah", "doth", "bring", "thee", "land", "whither", "thou", and "going". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "jehovah" and "doth", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The next verse adds "and Jehovah thy God hath given them...", so "jehovah" and "doth" should be read forward into that movement. In Deuteronomy context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

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