Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

You with Your own hand drove out the nations;
Then You planted them;
You afflicted the peoples,
Then You spread them abroad.

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

to plant them,
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.

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.

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.

Verse Info

Context Readings

Israel's Complaint

1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days in the times of old. 2 You with Your own hand drove out the nations;
Then You planted them;
You afflicted the peoples,
Then You spread them abroad.
3 For they did not get the land in inheritance by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them, but thy right hand and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance because thy delight was in them.


Cross References

Exodus 15:17

Thou shalt bring them in and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place of thy dwelling which thou hast made ready, O LORD, in the Sanctuary of the Lord, which thy hands have established.

Psalm 78:55

He cast out the Gentiles also before them and divided them an inheritance by line and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their habitations.

Psalm 135:10-12

He who smote many Gentiles and slew mighty kings,

Exodus 15:19

For Pharaoh went in on horseback with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the sons of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.

Exodus 23:28

And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee.

Exodus 34:11

Keep that which I command thee this day; behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Numbers 13:32

And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the sons of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone through to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.

Deuteronomy 7:1

When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land into which thou must enter to inherit it and has cast out many Gentiles before thee, 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 thou;

Joshua 3:10

And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Hivite and the Perizzite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Jebusite.

Joshua 10:11

And when they were fleeing from before Israel in the descent to Bethhoron, the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died; there were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the sons of Israel slew with the sword.

Joshua 10:42

All these kings and their lands Joshua took at one time because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.

Joshua 11:23

So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

Joshua 21:43

Thus the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he swore to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it and dwelt therein.

Joshua 24:12

And I sent hornets before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites, but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.

1 Samuel 5:6-7

But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon those of Ashdod, and he destroyed them and smote them with hemorrhoids in Ashdod and within all their borders.

2 Samuel 7:10

Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, that they may dwell in their place and never again be removed; neither shall the sons of iniquity afflict them any more as before,

Nehemiah 9:22-27

Thou didst give them kingdoms and peoples and didst divide them into corners; so they possessed the land of Sihon and the land of the king of Heshbon and the land of Og, king of Bashan.

Psalm 80:8-11

Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the Gentiles and planted it.

Psalm 105:44

and gave them the lands of the Gentiles, and they inherited the labour of the nations,

Psalm 136:17-22

To him who smote great kings: for his mercy endures for ever.

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