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.

So He brought them to His holy land,
To this mountain [Zion] which His right hand had acquired.

You uprooted a vine (Israel) from Egypt;
You drove out the [Canaanite] nations and planted the vine [in Canaan].

O Lord, You have [at last] shown favor to Your land [of Canaan];
You have restored [from Babylon] the captives of Jacob (Israel).

For all our days pass away in Your wrath;
We have finished our years like a whispered sigh.

“I will give the land of Canaan to you
as your inherited portion.”

When they were few in number,
very few indeed,
and temporary residents in Canaan,

He gave them the lands of the nations [of Canaan],
So that they would possess the fruits of those peoples’ labor,

Then they despised the pleasant land [of Canaan];
They did not believe in His word nor rely on it,

They shed innocent blood—
the blood of their sons and daughters
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
so the land became polluted with blood.

God has spoken in His holiness:
“I will rejoice, I will portion out Shechem [as I divide Canaan among My people],
And measure out the Valley of Succoth.

He has declared and made known to His people the power of His works,
In giving them the heritage of the nations.

Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan: