◄ Psalm 44:3 {43:3} ►
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Good News Translation
Your people did not conquer the land with their swords; they did not win it by their own power; it was by your power and your strength, by the assurance of your presence, which showed that you loved them.

New Revised Standard Version
for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm give them victory; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, for you delighted in them.

Contemporary English Version
Their strength and weapons were not what won the land and gave them victory! You loved them and fought with your powerful arm and your shining glory.

New American Bible
Not with their own swords did they conquer the land, nor did their own arms bring victory; It was your right hand, your own arm, the light of your face for you favored them.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

For

Deuteronomy 4:37,38 Because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them. And he brought thee out of Egypt, going before thee with his great power, . . .

Deuteronomy 8:17,18 Lest thou shouldst say in thy heart: My own might, and the strength of my own hand have achieved all these things for me. . . .

Joshua 24:12 And I sent before you and I drove them out from their places, the two kings of the Amorrhites, not with thy sword nor with thy bow,

Zechariah 4:6 And he answered, and spoke to me, saying: This is the word of the Lord to Zorobabel, saying: Not with an army, nor by might, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.

2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency may be of the power of God and not of us.

thy right

Psalm 17:7 Shew forth thy wonderful mercies; thou who savest them that trust in thee.

Psalm 20:6 The Lord fulfil all thy petitions: now have I known that the Lord hath saved his anointed. He will hear him from his holy heaven: the salvation of his right hand is in powers.

Psalm 74:11 Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the midst of thy bosom for ever?

Exodus 15:16 Let fear and dread fall upon them, in the greatness of thy arm: let them become immoveable as a stone, until thy people, O Lord, pass by: until this thy people pass by, which thou hast possessed.

Isaiah 63:12 He that brought out Moses by the right hand, by the arm of his majesty: that divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name.

light

Psalm 42:5,11 Why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou trouble me? Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance, . . .

Psalm 80:16 Things set on fire and dug down shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

because

Numbers 14:8 If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us into it, and give us a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 7:7,8 Not because you surpass all nations in number, is the Lord joined unto you, and hath chosen you, for you are the fewest of any people: . . .

1 Samuel 12:22 And the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because the Lord hath sworn to make you his people.

Malachi 1:2,3 I have loved you, saith the Lord: and you have said: Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau brother to Jacob, saith the Lord, and I have loved Jacob, . . .

Romans 9:10-15 And not only she. But when Rebecca also had conceived at once of Isaac our father. . . .

Context
Redeem Us
…2We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to us, The work thou hast wrought in their days, and in the days of old. 3Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.4For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword: neither did their own arm save them. But thy right hand and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance: because thou wast pleased with them.…
Cross References
Numbers 6:26
The Lord turn his countenance to thee, and give thee peace.

Deuteronomy 4:37
Because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them. And he brought thee out of Egypt, going before thee with his great power,

Deuteronomy 7:7
Not because you surpass all nations in number, is the Lord joined unto you, and hath chosen you, for you are the fewest of any people:

Deuteronomy 7:8
But because the Lord hath loved you, and hath kept his oath, which he swore to your fathers: and hath brought you out with a strong hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao the king of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 8:17
Lest thou shouldst say in thy heart: My own might, and the strength of my own hand have achieved all these things for me.

Deuteronomy 8:18
But remember the Lord thy God, that he hath given thee strength, that he might fulfil his covenant, concerning which he swore to thy fathers, as this present day sheweth.

Deuteronomy 10:15
And yet the Lord hath been closely joined to thy fathers, and loved them and chose their seed after them, that is to say, you, out of all nations, as this day it is proved.

Joshua 24:12
And I sent before you and I drove them out from their places, the two kings of the Amorrhites, not with thy sword nor with thy bow,

Psalm 4:6
The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us: thou hast given gladness in my heart.

Psalm 42:5
Why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou trouble me? Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance,

Psalm 77:10
And I said, Now have I begun: this is the change of the right hand of the most High.

Psalm 77:15
With thy arm thou hast redeemed thy people the children of Jacob and of Joseph.

Psalm 78:42
They remembered not his hand, in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of him that afflicted them:

Psalm 78:54
And he brought them into the mountain of his sanctuary: the mountain which his right hand had purchased. And he cast out the Gentiles before them: and by lot divided to them their land by a line of distribution.

Psalm 89:15
Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance:

Psalm 106:4
Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with thy salvation.

Psalm 136:12
With a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Isaiah 63:5
I looked about, and there was none to help: I sought, and there was none to give aid: and my own arm hath saved for me, and my indignation itself hath helped me.

Jeremiah 32:23
And they came in, and possessed it: but they obeyed not thy voice, and they walked not in thy law: and they did not any of those things that thou didst command them to do, and all these evils are come upon them.

Hosea 1:7
And I will have mercy on the house of Juda, and I will save them by the Lord, their God: and I will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, nor by horses, nor by horsemen.

Psalm 44:2
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