Psalm 44:2
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New International Version (©1984)
With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our fathers; you crushed the peoples and made our fathers flourish.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
You with Your own hand drove out the nations; Then You planted them; You afflicted the peoples, Then You spread them abroad.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
By your power you forced nations [out of the land], but you planted our ancestors [there]. You shattered many groups of people, but you set our ancestors free.

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

American King James Version
How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.

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.

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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them : thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.

Darby Bible 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.

English Revised Version
Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand, and plantedst them in; thou didst afflict the peoples, and didst spread them abroad.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou, with Thy hand, nations hast dispossessed. And Thou dost plant them. Thou afflictest peoples, and sendest them away.

Geneva Study Bible

How thou didst drive out the {b} heathen with thy hand, and plantedst {c} them; how thou didst afflict the {d} people, and (e) cast them out.

(b) That is, the Canaanites.

(c) That is, our fathers.

(d) Of Canaan.

(e) That is, our fathers.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. plantedst them-that is, "our fathers," who are also, from the parallel construction of the last clause, to be regarded as the object of "cast them out," which means-literally, "send" them out, or, "extend them." Heathen and people denote the nations who were driven out to make room for the Israelites.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

44:1-8 Former experiences of God's power and goodness are strong supports to faith, and powerful pleas in prayer under present calamities. The many victories Israel obtained, were not by their own strength or merit, but by God's favour and free grace. The less praise this allows us, the more comfort it affords, that we may see all as coming from the favour of God. He fought for Israel, else they had fought in vain. This is applicable to the planting of the Christian church in the world, which was not by any human policy or power. Christ, by his Spirit, went forth conquering and to conquer; and he that planted a church for himself in the world, will support it by the same power and goodness. They trusted and triumphed in and through him. Let him that glories, glory in the Lord. But if they have the comfort of his name, let them give unto him the glory due unto it.


Exodus 15:17 "You will bring them and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, The place, O LORD, which You have made for Your dwelling, The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.
Joshua 3:10 Joshua said, "By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that He will assuredly dispossess from before you the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite.
2 Samuel 7:10 "I will also appoint a place for My people Israel and will plant them, that they may live in their own place and not be disturbed again, nor will the wicked afflict them any more as formerly,
Nehemiah 9:24 "So their sons entered and possessed the land. And You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, And You gave them into their hand, with their kings and the peoples of the land, To do with them as they desired.
Psalm 78:55 He also drove out the nations before them And apportioned them for an inheritance by measurement, And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.
Psalm 80:8 You removed a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and planted it.
Psalm 80:9 You cleared the ground before it, And it took deep root and filled the land.
Psalm 135:10 He smote many nations And slew mighty kings,
Jeremiah 24:6 'For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them up and not overthrow them, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.
Amos 9:15 "I will also plant them on their land, And they will not again be rooted out from their land Which I have given them," Says the LORD your God.
Zechariah 2:6 "Ho there! Flee from the land of the north," declares the LORD, "for I have dispersed you as the four winds of the heavens," declares the LORD. (NASB ©1995)

Abroad Afflict Afflicted Afflictest Break Cast Cause Crushed Cutting Dispossessed Drive Drove Fathers Flourish Free Growth Hand Heathen Increasing Nations Peoples Plant Planted Plantedst Planting Sendest Spread Uprooting


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

drive out Ps 78:55 80:8 105:44 135:10-12 136:17-22 Ex 15:17,19 34:11 De 7:1 Jos 10:42 11:23 21:43 Ne 9:22-27

how thou didst afflict. Or, rather, `how thou didst afflict the peoples (of Canaan,) and madest then (the Hebrews) to shoot forth; `for halach is to send forth in any manner, and is applied to a vine spreading its roots Ps 89:9 Eze 17:6 Jer 17:8

and this sense is parallel with plantedst in the former line Ex 23:28 Nu 13:32 Jos 10:11 24:12 1Sa 5:6,7

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