Num 33:55, Eze 28:24 | ESV | STEP | But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides , and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell .

a Josh. 23:13; Judg. 2:3; Ps. 106:34, 36

Numbers 33:55

55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as ^abarbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.

Ezekiel 28:24

24 “And for the house of Israel ^bthere shall be no more a brier to prick or ^ca thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors ^dwho have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.