Psalm 78:54
New International Version
And so he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.

New Living Translation
He brought them to the border of his holy land, to this land of hills he had won for them.

English Standard Version
And he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had won.

Berean Standard Bible
He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.

King James Bible
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

New King James Version
And He brought them to His holy border, This mountain which His right hand had acquired.

New American Standard Bible
So He brought them to His holy land, To this hill country which His right hand had gained.

NASB 1995
So He brought them to His holy land, To this hill country which His right hand had gained.

NASB 1977
So He brought them to His holy land, To this hill country which His right hand had gained.

Legacy Standard Bible
So He brought them to His holy land, To this hill country which His right hand had acquired.

Amplified Bible
So He brought them to His holy land, To this mountain [Zion] which His right hand had acquired.

Christian Standard Bible
He brought them to his holy territory, to the mountain his right hand acquired.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand acquired.

American Standard Version
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He brought them to the border of his Holiness, this mountain that his right hand possessed.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he brought them in to the mountain of his sanctuary, this mountain which his right hand had purchased.

Contemporary English Version
God brought his people to the sacred mountain that he had taken by his own power.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

English Revised Version
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He brought them into his holy land, to this mountain that his power had won.

Good News Translation
He brought them to his holy land, to the mountains which he himself conquered.

International Standard Version
He brought the people to the border of his holy mountain, which he acquired by his might.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And He brought them to His holy border, To the mountain, which His right hand had gotten.

Literal Standard Version
And He brings them to the border of His sanctuary, | This mountain His right hand had acquired,

Majority Standard Bible
He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.

New American Bible
And he brought them to his holy mountain, the hill his right hand had won.

NET Bible
He brought them to the border of his holy land, to this mountainous land which his right hand acquired.

New Revised Standard Version
And he brought them to his holy hill, to the mountain that his right hand had won.

New Heart English Bible
He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

World English Bible
He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

Young's Literal Translation
And He bringeth them in unto the border of His sanctuary, This mountain His right hand had got,

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Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
53He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies. 54He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired. 55He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.…

Cross References
Exodus 15:13
With loving devotion You will lead the people You have redeemed; with Your strength You will guide them to Your holy dwelling.

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.

Numbers 34:2
"Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:

Psalm 44:3
For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory. It was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.

Psalm 68:16
Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.

Isaiah 11:9
They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.

Jeremiah 32:23
They came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law. They failed to perform all that You commanded them to do, and so You have brought upon them all this disaster.


Treasury of Scripture

And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

and he

Exodus 15:13,17
Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation…

Daniel 9:16-20
O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us…

Daniel 11:45
And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

his right

Psalm 44:3
For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

Ephesians 1:14
Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

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Psalm 78
1. An exhortation both to learn and to preach, the law of God
9. The story of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient
67. The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion, and David.














(54) This mountain--i.e., Zion, though from its apposition to border some prefer to take it of all the mountain country of Judaea.

Purchased.--Rather, acquired.

Verse 54. - And he brought them to the Border of his sanctuary. The "sanctuary" is here probably the Holy Land, as in Exodus 15:17; or we may translate גבוּל קדשׁו "his holy territory." Even to this mountain. Mount Zion, on which the writer regards himself as standing while his words are chanted in the temple service. Which his right hand had purchased; or, had gotten, "had won." God's right hand won the whole land for his people.

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Hebrew
He brought
וַ֭יְבִיאֵם (way·ḇî·’êm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

them to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

His holy
קָדְשׁ֑וֹ (qā·ḏə·šōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6944: A sacred place, thing, sanctity

land,
גְּב֣וּל (gə·ḇūl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1366: A cord, a boundary, the territory inclosed

to the hill country
הַר־ (har-)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country

His right hand
יְמִינֽוֹ׃ (yə·mî·nōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3225: The right hand, side, the south

had acquired.
קָנְתָ֥ה (qā·nə·ṯāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 7069: To erect, create, to procure, by purchase, to own


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