Psalms 78:54

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amplified Bible
So He brought them to His holy land, To this mountain [Zion] 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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;

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Contextual Overview

⁵⁶But they kept on giving him a hard time, rebelled against God, the High God, refused to do anything he told them. They were worse, if that's possible, than their parents: traitors—crooked as a corkscrew. Their pagan orgies provoked God's anger, their obscene idolatries broke his heart. When God heard their carryings-on, he was furious; he posted a huge No over Israel. He walked off and left Shiloh empty, abandoned the shrine where he had met with Israel. He let his pride and joy go to the dogs, turned his back on the pride of his life. He turned them loose on fields of battle; angry, he let them fend for themselves. Their young men went to war and never came back; their young women waited in vain. Their priests were massacred, and their widows never shed a tear. ⁶⁵Suddenly the Lord was up on his feet like someone roused from deep sleep, shouting like a drunken warrior. He hit his enemies hard, sent them running, yelping, not daring to look back. He disqualified Joseph as leader, told Ephraim he didn't have what it takes, And chose the Tribe of Judah instead, Mount Zion, which he loves so much. He built his sanctuary there, resplendent, solid and lasting as the earth itself. Then he chose David, his servant, handpicked him from his work in the sheep pens. One day he was caring for the ewes and their lambs, the next day God had him shepherding Jacob, his people Israel, his prize possession. His good heart made him a good shepherd; he guided the people wisely and well.

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.