Psalms 44:2

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
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“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“Thou, <FI>with<Fi> Thy hand, nations hast dispossessed. And Thou dost plant them. Thou afflictest peoples, and sendest them away.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 44:2 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 10:2and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how severely I dealt with the Egyptians when I performed miraculous signs among them, so that all of you may know that I am the LORD.”
  2. Exodus 15:17You 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.
  3. Exodus 15:19For when Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought the waters of the sea back over them. But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.
  4. Exodus 23:28I will send the hornet before you to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.
  5. Exodus 34:11Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
  6. Numbers 13:32So 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.
  7. Deuteronomy 4:38to drive out before you nations greater and mightier than you, and to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.
  8. Deuteronomy 7:1When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
  9. Deuteronomy 32:7Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.
  10. Joshua 3:10He 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.
  11. Joshua 10:11As 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.
  12. Joshua 10:42And because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel, Joshua captured all these kings and their land in one campaign.
  13. Joshua 11:23So 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.
  14. Joshua 21:43Thus the LORD gave Israel all the land He had sworn to give their fathers, and they took possession of it and settled in it.
  15. Joshua 24:12I sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings before you, but not by your own sword or bow.
  16. Judges 6:13“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
  17. 1 Samuel 5:6Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.
  18. 2 Samuel 7:10And 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
  19. 2 Samuel 23:12But Shammah took his stand in the middle of the field, defended it, and struck down the Philistines. So the LORD brought about a great victory.
  20. Nehemiah 9:22You 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.
  21. Psalms 78:55He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
  22. Psalms 80:8You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
  23. Psalms 105:44He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,
  24. Psalms 135:10He struck down many nations and slaughtered mighty kings:

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