Deuteronomy 9:5

5It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to take possession of their land, 9:5 Or forbut it is because of the 9:5 Or godlessnesswickedness of these nations that the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and in order to confirm the 9:5 Lit wordoath which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.