Psalm 44:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm give them victory; but thy right hand, and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance; for thou didst delight in them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For they got not the land [of Canaan] in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your countenance [did it], because You were favorable toward and did delight in them.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ For they gat 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 wast favorable unto them.

Common English Bible

³ No, not by their own swords did they take possession of the land— their own arms didn’t save them. No, it was your strong hand, your arm, and the light of your face because you were pleased with them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ You are a brilliant form before the sons of men. Grace has been poured freely into your lips. Because of this, God has blessed you in eternity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Thou art beautiful above the sons of men: grace is poured abroad in thy lips; therefore hath God blessed thee for ever

Psalm 44:3 Cross References

2 Samuel 7:23

What other nation on earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name, and doing for them great and terrible things, by driving out before his people a nation and its gods?

2 Chronicles 20:7

Didst thou not, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and give it for ever to the descendants of Abraham thy friend?

Psalm 111:6

He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the heritage of the nations.

Psalm 17:7

Wondrously show thy steadfast love, O savior of those who seek refuge from their adversaries at thy right hand.

Psalm 20:6

Now I know that the Lord will help his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with mighty victories by his right hand.

Psalm 4:6

There are many who say, “O that we might see some good! Lift up the light of thy countenance upon us, O Lord!”

Psalm 42:11

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God.

Psalm 42:5

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help

Psalm 74:11

Why dost thou hold back thy hand, why dost thou keep thy right hand in thy bosom?

Psalm 77:15

Thou didst with thy arm redeem thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah

Psalm 78:55

He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

Psalm 80:16

They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance!

Psalm 80:9

Thou didst clear the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.

Exodus 15:16

Terror and dread fall upon them; because of the greatness of thy arm, they are as still as a stone, till thy people, O Lord, pass by, till the people pass by whom thou hast purchased.

Isaiah 63:12

who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name,

Zechariah 4:6

Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.

Numbers 14:8

If the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us.

Deuteronomy 10:15

yet the Lord set his heart in love upon your fathers and chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as at this day.

Joshua 24:12

And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.

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, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

1 Samuel 12:22

For the Lord will not cast away his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.