Psalms 78:54

New Living Translation

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

Parallel Translations

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

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So He brought them to His holy land, To this hill country which His right hand had gained.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And brought them within the borders of his sanctuarie: euen to this mountayne which his right hand purchased.

Darby Translation
And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain, which his right hand purchased;

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

Literal Translation
He brought them to the border of His holy place; this mountain that His right hand had gained.

Easy-to-Read Version
He led his people to his holy land, to the mountain he took with his own power.

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

King James Version (1611)
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuarie: euen to this mountaine which his right hand had purchased.

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He brought them out safely, that they shulde not feare, and ouerwhelmed their enemies with the see.

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

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

Bible in Basic English
And he was their guide to his holy land, even to the mountain, which his right hand had made his;

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

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

New English Translation
He brought them to the border of his holy land, to this mountainous land which his right hand acquired.

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

Complete Jewish Bible
He brought them to his holy land, to the hill-country won by his right hand.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And he brought them vnto the borders of his Sanctuarie: euen to this Mountaine, which his right hand purchased.

George Lamsa Translation
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had possessed.

Hebrew Names Version
He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And He brought them to His holy border, to the mountain, which His right hand had gotten.

New Life Bible
He brought them to His holy land, to the hill country His right hand had taken.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he brought them in to the mountain of his sanctuary, this mountain which his right hand had purchased.

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

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

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then brought he them within his own holy bounds, The mountain-range, which his right hand made his own:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(77-54) 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.

Lexham English Bible
So he brought them to his holy territory, this mountain his right hand acquired.

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

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

New Century Version
So God brought them to his holy land, to the mountain country he took with his own power.

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

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he brouyte hem in to the hil of his halewyng; in to the hil which his riythond gat. And he castide out hethene men fro the face of hem; and bi lot he departide to hem the lond in a cord of delyng.

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

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

Contextual Overview

⁴⁰ Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved his heart in that dry wasteland. ⁴¹ Again and again they tested God's patience and provoked the Holy One of Israel. ⁴² They did not remember his power and how he rescued them from their enemies. ⁴³ They did not remember his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders on the plain of Zoan. ⁴⁴ For he turned their rivers into blood, so no one could drink from the streams. ⁴⁵ He sent vast swarms of flies to consume them and hordes of frogs to ruin them. ⁴⁶ He gave their crops to caterpillars; their harvest was consumed by locusts. ⁴⁷ He destroyed their grapevines with hail and shattered their sycamore-figs with sleet. ⁴⁸ He abandoned their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning. ⁴⁹ He loosed on them his fierce anger— all his fury, rage, and hostility. He dispatched against them a band of destroying angels.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And he: Exodus 15:13, Exodus 15:17, Daniel 9:16-20, Daniel 11:45

his right: Psalms 44:3, Ephesians 1:14

Reciprocal: Joshua 24:11 - the men 1 Samuel 12:8 - made them Isaiah 26:10 - in the Jeremiah 2:17 - when he Jeremiah 32:23 - possessed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary,.... Of the land of Canaan, which the Lord had sanctified, and set apart for them; and of Jerusalem, the holy city, the city of the great God, and of the temple where his residence was to be; so the Targum,

"to the border of the place of the house of his sanctuary:''

even to this mountain, which his right hand purchased; the mount Moriah, on which the temple was built; this psalm being composed, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi think, after it was made known to David, by the prophet Gad, the place where the temple should be built; namely, on the very mountain, on part of which David had his palace; and this was obtained and possessed, not by the power nor through the merits of the Israelites, but through the power and goodness of God; see Psalms 44:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary - The Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate render this, “to the mountain of his holiness”; that is, his holy mountain. But the reference is rather to the whole land of Canaan. He brought them to the borders of that land - the land of promise - the holy land. They who came out from Egypt did not indeed enter that land, except Caleb and Joshua, but they were conveyed to its borders before all of them fell. It was true also that the people - the Hebrew people - came to the promised land, and secured its possession.

Even to this mountain - Mount Zion, for the object of the psalm was to show that the worship of God was properly celebrated there. See Psalms 78:68. The meaning is not that the people who came out of Egypt actually inherited that mountain, but that their descendants - the people of God - had been put in possession of it.

Which his right hand had purchased - Had procured, or obtained possession of. That is, he had secured it by his power.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 78:54. The border of his sanctuary — קדשו kodsho, "of his holy place," that is, the land of Canaan, called afterwards the mountain which his right hand had purchased; because it was a mountainous country, widely differing from Egypt, which was a long, continued, and almost perfect level.