Bible Compass
Log inGet started
Back to the chapter

Psalms 44:2

1 We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.

With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.

3 For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory. It was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.

4 You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.

Read the whole chapter

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
KJV
How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
WEB
You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
ASV
Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand; But them thou didst plant: Thou didst afflict the peoples; But them thou didst spread abroad.
DARBY
Thou, by thy hand, didst dispossess the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them didst thou cause to spread out.
BLB
You, with Your hand, dispossessed the nations, and You planted them; You afflicted the peoples and sent them forth.
ÅB
Du drev hedningene ut med din hånd, men dem plantet du; du ødela folkene, men dem lot du utbrede seg.
OTB
Med Din mektige hånd drev Du ut folkeslagene og grunnla våre forfedre;
Du plaget folkene og satte dem fri.
B1930
Du drev hedningene ut med din hånd, men dem plantet du; du ødela folkene, men dem lot du utbrede sig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Exodus 15:17

    You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance— the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established.

    Read in context

  • Psalms 78:55

    He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

    Read in context

  • Joshua 11:23

    So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.

    Read in context

  • 2 Samuel 7:10

    And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning

    Read in context

  • Psalms 135:10–12

    He struck down many nations and slaughtered mighty kings:

    Read in context

  • Joshua 21:43

    Thus the LORD gave Israel all the land He had sworn to give their fathers, and they took possession of it and settled in it.

    Read in context

  • Exodus 34:11

    Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

    Read in context

  • Psalms 80:8–11

    You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.

    Read in context