Deuteronomy 8:14 (YLT)

Passage

`And thy heart hath been high, and thou hast forgotten Jehovah thy God (who is bringing thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;

Nearby Context

Deuteronomy 8:12 lest thou eat, and hast been satisfied, and good houses dost build, and hast inhabited;

Deuteronomy 8:13 and thy herd and thy flock be multiplied, and silver and gold be multiplied to thee; and all that is thine be multiplied:

Deuteronomy 8:14 `And thy heart hath been high, and thou hast forgotten Jehovah thy God (who is bringing thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;

Deuteronomy 8:15 who is causing thee to go in the great and the terrible wilderness--burning serpent, and scorpion, and thirst--where there is no water; who is bringing out to thee waters from the flinty rock;

Deuteronomy 8:16 who is causing thee to eat manna in the wilderness, which thy fathers have not known, in order to humble thee, and in order to try thee, to do thee good in thy latter end),

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "heart", "hath", "been", "high", "thou", "hast", "forgotten", and "jehovah". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "heart" and "hath", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 13's "and thy herd and thy flock be..." into verse 15's "who is causing thee to go in...", so "heart" and "hath" 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 "heart" and "hath" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.