Psalms 44:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.

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  • Josh 24:12 : 12 And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two kings of the Amorites before you, not with your sword and your bow.
  • Deut 7:7-8 : 7 The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations: 8 But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
  • Deut 8:17-18 : 17 Say not then, in your hearts, My power and the strength of my hands have got me this wealth. 18 But keep in mind the Lord your God: for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth, so that he may give effect to the agreement which he made by his oath with your fathers, as at this day.
  • Deut 10:15 : 15 But the Lord had delight in your fathers and love for them, marking out for himself their seed after them, even you, from all peoples, as at this day.
  • Exod 15:16 : 16 Fear and grief came on them; by the strength of your arm they were turned to stone; till your people went over, O Lord, till the people went over whom you have made yours.
  • Num 14:8 : 8 And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
  • Deut 4:37-38 : 37 And because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and he himself, present among you, took you out of Egypt by his great power; 38 Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.
  • Isa 63:12 : 12 He who made the arm of his glory go at the right hand of Moses, by whom the waters were parted before them, to make himself an eternal name;
  • Zech 4:6 : 6 This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by force or by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of armies.
  • Mal 1:2-3 : 2 You have been loved by me, says the Lord. But you say, Where was your love for us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord: but Jacob was loved by me, 3 And Esau was hated, and I sent destruction on his mountains, and gave his heritage to the beasts of the waste land.
  • Rom 9:10-15 : 10 And not only so, but Rebecca being about to have a child by our father Isaac-- 11 Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is, 12 It was said to her, The older will be the servant of the younger. 13 Even as it is said, I had love for Jacob, but for Esau I had hate. 14 What may we say then? is God not upright? let it not be said. 15 For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God;
  • 1 Sam 12:22 : 22 For the Lord will not give his people up, because of the honour of his name; for it was the Lord's pleasure to make of you a people for himself.
  • Ps 4:6 : 6 There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.
  • Ps 17:7 : 7 Make clear the wonder of your mercy, O saviour of those who put their faith in your right hand, from those who come out against them.
  • Ps 20:6 : 6 Now am I certain that the Lord gives salvation to his king; he will give him an answer from his holy heaven with the strength of salvation in his right hand.
  • Ps 42:5 : 5 Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
  • Ps 42:11 : 11 Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
  • Ps 74:11 : 11 Why are you keeping back your hand, and covering your right hand in your robe?
  • Ps 77:15 : 15 With your arm you have made your people free, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. (Selah.)
  • Ps 80:16 : 16 It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

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    2 Uprooting the nations with your hand, and planting our fathers in their place; cutting down the nations, but increasing the growth of your people.

  • Ps 44:4-7
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    4 You are my King and my God; ordering salvation for Jacob.

    5 Through you will we overcome our haters; by your name will they be crushed under our feet who are violent against us.

    6 I will not put faith in my bow, my sword will not be my salvation.

    7 But it is you who have been our saviour from those who were against us, and have put to shame those who had hate for us.

  • Deut 9:4-6
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    4 And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has given me this land; when it is because of their evil-doing that the Lord is driving these nations out before you.

    5 Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

    6 Be certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land as a reward for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.

  • Ps 89:17
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    17 For you are the glory of their strength; in your pleasure will our horn be lifted up.

  • Ps 89:13
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    13 Yours is an arm of power; strong is your hand and high your right hand.

  • Deut 9:29
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    29 But still they are your people and your heritage, whom you took out by your great power and by your stretched-out arm.

  • Ps 17:7
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    7 Make clear the wonder of your mercy, O saviour of those who put their faith in your right hand, from those who come out against them.

  • Neh 9:24-25
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    24 So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.

    25 And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.

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    6 Full of glory, O Lord, is the power of your right hand; by your right hand those who came against you are broken.

  • Ps 118:15-16
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    15 The sound of joy and salvation is in the tents of the upright; the right hand of the Lord does works of power.

    16 The right hand of the Lord is lifted up; the right hand of the Lord does works of power.

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    29 Happy are you, O Israel: who is like you, a people whose saviour is the Lord, whose help is your cover, whose sword is your strength! All those who are against you will put themselves under your rule, and your feet will be planted on their high places.

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    27 And so you gave them up into the hands of their haters who were cruel to them: and in the time of their trouble, when they made their prayer to you, you gave ear to them from heaven; and in your great mercy gave them saviours, who made them free from the hands of their haters.

    28 But when they had rest, they did evil again before you: so you gave them into the hands of their haters, who had rule over them: but when they came back and made their prayer to you, you gave ear to them from heaven; again and again, in your mercy, you gave them salvation;

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    11 See now, how as our reward they have come to send us out of your land which you have given us as our heritage.

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    15 With your arm you have made your people free, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. (Selah.)

  • Exod 15:12
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    12 When your right hand was stretched out, the mouth of the earth was open for them.

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  • Isa 34:17
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  • 2 Sam 22:40
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    40 For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who came out against me.

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