Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G Message"Yet it was I who swept away the Amorites before them — towering like cedars, strong as ancient oaks — I uprooted their fruit above and their roots beneath."
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.G"Yet it was I who destroyed the Emori before them — whose height was like the height of the cedars and who was as strong as the oaks — and I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below."
KJV
King James VersionYet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleYet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.
Footnotes
The emphatic "Anoki" (I, Myself) heads both vv. 9 and 10, creating a sharp rhetorical contrast: YHWH recites His history of grace and power, setting it against Israel's ingratitude. "Fruit above...roots below" is a merism for total, generational annihilation — no legacy, no descendants, utterly erased from the earth.
