Psalm 44:2

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

Literal

You, with Your hand, dispossessed the nations, and You planted them; You afflicted the peoples and sent them forth.

Latin

Manus tua gentes disperdidit, et plantasti eos; afflixisti populos, et expulisti eos.

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Psalms 44:2

God drove out the pagan nations during the conquests recorded in Joshua.

Psalms 44:1–26

This national lament after a defeat in battle continues the tone of the previous two psalms. It reflects on an unspecified moment in Israel's history and calls on God for salvation. The people:

recite God's past acts of rescue (Psalm 44:1–3),
recognize God's power to save (Psalm 44:4–8),
describe their humiliation in exile (Psalm 44:9–16),
claim their innocence and lament the injustice of their current situation (Psalm 44:17–22), and
cry for vindication (Psalm 44:23–26).

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Exodus 15:17
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
He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
2 Samuel 7:10
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 11:23
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
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 80:8–11
You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
Psalm 135:10–12
He struck down many nations and slaughtered mighty kings:
Exodus 34:11
Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Joshua 10:42
And because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel, Joshua captured all these kings and their land in one campaign.
1 Samuel 5:6–7
Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.
Nehemiah 9:22–27
You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.
Psalm 105:44
He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,

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