Psalms 44:2
What does Psalms 44:2 mean?
A plain-English look at Psalms 44:2 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand; But them thou didst plant: Thou didst afflict the peoples; But them thou didst spread abroad.
KJV
King James Version · 1611How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand; But them thou didst plant: Thou didst afflict the peoples; But them thou didst spread abroad.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Uprooting the nations with your hand, and planting our fathers in their place; cutting down the nations, but increasing the growth of your people.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Thou, <FI>with<Fi> Thy hand, nations hast dispossessed. And Thou dost plant them. Thou afflictest peoples, and sendest them away.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752My heart hath uttered a good word: I speak my works to the king: My tongue is the pen of a scrivener that writeth swiftly.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Thou, 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.
Context
v.1We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work thou didst in their days, In the days of old.
v.2This passage
v.3For 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.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 136:17
To him that smote great kings; For his lovingkindness endureth for ever;
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,
- Psalms 105:44
And he gave them the lands of the nations; And they took the labor of the peoples in possession:
- 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.
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