Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
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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.
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.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 44:2
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 days of old. 2 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. 3 For they gat not the land in possession 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 thou wast favorable unto them.
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Cross References
Exodus 15:17
Thou wilt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, The place, O Jehovah, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, The sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.
Psalm 78:55
He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Psalm 135:10-12
Who smote many nations, And slew mighty kings,
Exodus 15:19
For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Jehovah brought back the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea.
Exodus 23:28
And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
Exodus 34:11
Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and 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 children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.
Deuteronomy 7:1
When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations 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 it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, that Jehovah cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
Joshua 10:42
And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because Jehovah, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Jehovah spake unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land had rest from war.
Joshua 21:43
So Jehovah gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
Joshua 24:12
And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
1 Samuel 5:6-7
But the hand of Jehovah was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with tumors, even Ashdod and the borders thereof.
2 Samuel 7:10
And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as at the first,
Nehemiah 9:22-27
Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, which thou didst allot after their portions: so they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
Psalm 80:8-11
Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.
Psalm 105:44
And he gave them the lands of the nations; And they took the labor of the peoples in possession:
Psalm 136:17-22
To him that smote great kings; For his lovingkindness endureth for ever;