55He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.


In Context

52 But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the desert.

53 He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.

54 Thus he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.

55 He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.

56 But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.

57 Like their fathers they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.

Psalms 78:55 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

78:55He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

78:55And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

78:55He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

78:55And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

78:55He drove out the nations also before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

78:55He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

78:55He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

78:55And casteth out nations from before them, And causeth them to fall in the line of inheritance, And causeth the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

78:55He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.