Psalm 44:2 “With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there…”

Psalm 44:2

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you 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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Howe thou hast driuen out the heathen with thine hand, and planted them: how thou hast destroyed the people, and caused them to grow.

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.

Young's Literal Translation

Thou, [with] Thy hand, nations hast dispossessed. And Thou dost plant them. Thou afflictest peoples, and sendest them away.

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.

.mt-body { max-height: none !important; -webkit-mask-image: none !important; mask-image: none !important; } .mt-bar { display: none !important; } .o-trans::after { display: block !important; }

Cross references

“drive out”

Exodus 15:17 Psalm 78:55 Joshua 11:23 Joshua 21:43 Psalm 135:10–12 Exodus 34:11

Exodus 15:17 · BSB

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.

Psalm 78:55 · BSB

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

Joshua 11:23 · BSB

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.

Joshua 21:43 · BSB

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.

Psalm 135:10–12 · BSB

He struck down many nations and slaughtered mighty kings:

Exodus 34:11 · BSB

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

“how thou didst afflict, etc”

Exodus 23:28 Numbers 13:32 Joshua 10:11 Joshua 24:12 1 Samuel 5:6 1 Samuel 5:7

Exodus 23:28 · BSB

I will send the hornet before you to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.

Numbers 13:32 · BSB

So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.

Joshua 10:11 · BSB

As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.

Joshua 24:12 · BSB

I sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings before you, but not by your own sword or bow.

1 Samuel 5:6 · BSB

Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.

1 Samuel 5:7 · BSB

And when the men of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not stay here with us, because His hand is heavy upon us and upon our god Dagon.”

Also

2 Samuel 7:10 Joshua 3:10

2 Samuel 7:10 · BSB

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

Joshua 3:10 · BSB

He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

3For 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.

Read Psalm 44