King James Version
Psalms 44:2 in the King James Version says “How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them...” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 44 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.”
Psalms 44:2 · KJV
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
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.
Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
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“with thy hand”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
“the heathen”
H1471a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
“How thou didst drive out”
H3423to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish
“and plantedst”
H5193properly, to strike in, i.e., fix; specifically, to plant (literally or figuratively)
“them how thou didst afflict”
H7489properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good for nothing, i.e., bad (physically, socially or morally)
“and cast them out”
H7971to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
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