Parallel Verses
Amplified
You drove out the [pagan] nations with Your own hand;
Then you planted and established them (Israel);
[It was by Your power that] You uprooted the [pagan] peoples,
Then You spread them abroad.
New American Standard Bible
Then You
You
Then You
King James Version
How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
Holman Bible
You drove out the nations with Your hand;
to settle them,
You crushed the peoples.
International Standard Version
With your hand you expelled the nations and established our ancestors. You afflicted nations and cast them out.
A Conservative Version
Thou drove out the nations with thy hand, but thou planted them. Thou afflicted the peoples, but thou spread them abroad.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
Uprooting the nations with your hand, and planting our fathers in their place; cutting down the nations, but increasing the growth of your people.
Darby Translation
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.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou didst with thy hand drive out the nations and thou wilt plant them; thou wilt pluck in pieces the people, and thou wilt send them forth.
King James 2000
How you did drive out the nations with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You [with] your hand drove out the nations, but them you planted. You harmed [the] peoples, but them you let spread out.
Modern King James verseion
You drove out the nations with Your hand, and planted them; You brought evil on peoples and cast them out.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
How thou hast driven out the Heathen with thy hand, and planted them in; how thou hast destroyed the nations and cast them out.
NET Bible
You, by your power, defeated nations and settled our fathers on their land; you crushed the people living there and enabled our ancestors to occupy it.
New Heart English Bible
You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
The Emphasized Bible
Thou thyself, with thine own hand - Didst dispossess, nations, and didst plant them, Didst break peoples in pieces, and didst spread them out:
Webster
How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and didst plant them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
World English Bible
You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou, with Thy hand, nations hast dispossessed. And Thou dost plant them. Thou afflictest peoples, and sendest them away.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 44:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Complaint
1
Our fathers have told us
The work You did in their days,
In the days of old.
2
You drove out the [pagan] nations with Your own hand;
Then you planted and established them (Israel);
[It was by Your power that] You uprooted the [pagan] peoples,
Then You spread them abroad.
For our fathers did not possess the land [of Canaan] by their own sword,
Nor did their own arm save them,
But Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your presence,
Because You favored and delighted in them.
Names
Cross References
Exodus 15:17
“You will bring them [into the land of promise] and plant them on the mountain (Mt. Moriah in Jerusalem) of Your inheritance,
The place, O Lord, You have made for Your dwelling [among them],
The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.
Psalm 78:55
He also drove out the nations before the sons of Israel
And allotted their land as an inheritance, measured out and partitioned;
And He had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents [the tents of those who had been dispossessed].
Psalm 135:10-12
Who struck many nations
And killed mighty kings,
Exodus 15:19
For the horses of Pharaoh went with his war-chariots and his charioteers into the sea, and the Lord brought back the waters of the sea on them, but the sons of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.
Exodus 23:28
I will send hornets ahead of you which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.
Exodus 34:11
“Be sure to observe what I am commanding you this day: behold, I am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Numbers 13:32
So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we went, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants. And all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.
Deuteronomy 7:1
“When the Lord your God brings you into the land which you are entering to possess, and has cleared away many nations before you, the Hittite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you,
Joshua 3:10
Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that He will, without fail, drive out from before you the
Joshua 10:11
As they fled before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, the Lord threw down large stones [of hail] from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. More [Amorites] died because of the hailstones than those whom the sons of Israel killed with the sword.
Joshua 10:42
Joshua captured all these kings and their land at one time, because the Lord, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land [of Canaan], according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. So the land had rest from war.
Joshua 21:43
So the Lord gave Israel all the land which He had sworn to give to their fathers (ancestors), and they took possession of it and lived in it.
Joshua 24:12
I sent the hornet [that is, the terror of you] before you, which drove the two kings of the Amorites out before you; but it was not by your sword or by your bow.
1 Samuel 5:6-7
Then the hand of the Lord was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and He caused them to be dumbfounded and struck them with
2 Samuel 7:10
I will appoint a place for My people Israel and will plant them, so that they may live in a place of their own and not be disturbed again. The
Nehemiah 9:22-27
“You also gave them kingdoms and peoples,
And You allotted the kingdoms to them as a boundary.
So they took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon
And the land of Og king of Bashan.
Psalm 80:8-11
You uprooted a vine (Israel) from Egypt;
You drove out the [Canaanite] nations and planted the vine [in Canaan].
Psalm 105:44
He gave them the lands of the nations [of Canaan],
So that they would possess the fruits of those peoples’ labor,
Psalm 136:17-22
To Him who struck down great kings,
For His lovingkindness endures forever;