Psalm 44:2 With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our ancestors; you crushed the peoples and made our ancestors flourish.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our ancestors; you crushed the peoples and made our ancestors flourish.

English Standard Version
you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free;

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

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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
to plant them, You drove out the nations with Your hand; to settle them, You crushed the peoples.

International Standard Version
With your hand you expelled the nations and established our ancestors. You afflicted nations 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.

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.

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

Cross References

Acts 7:45
Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David;

Exodus 15:17
You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which you have made for you to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which your hands have established.

Joshua 3:10
And Joshua said, Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

Judges 1:4
And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.

2 Samuel 7:10
Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,

Nehemiah 9:24
So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.

Psalm 77:10
And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

Psalm 78:55
He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

Psalm 80:8
You have brought a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it.

Psalm 80:9
You prepared room before it, and did cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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.