Psalms 78:55
Psalms 78:38-55 The Message (MSG)
And God? Compassionate! Forgave the sin! Didn’t destroy! Over and over he reined in his anger, restrained his considerable wrath. He knew what they were made of; he knew there wasn’t much to them, How often in the desert they had spurned him, tried his patience in those wilderness years. Time and again they pushed him to the limit, provoked Israel’s Holy God. How quickly they forgot what he’d done, forgot their day of rescue from the enemy, When he did miracles in Egypt, wonders on the plain of Zoan. He turned the River and its streams to blood— not a drop of water fit to drink. He sent flies, which ate them alive, and frogs, which drove them crazy. He turned their harvest over to caterpillars, everything they had worked for to the locusts. He flattened their grapevines with hail; a killing frost ruined their orchards. He pounded their cattle with hail, let thunderbolts loose on their herds. His anger flared, a wild firestorm of havoc, An advance guard of disease-carrying angels to clear the ground, preparing the way before him. He didn’t spare those people, he let the plague rage through their lives. He killed all the Egyptian firstborns, lusty infants, offspring of Ham’s virility. Then he led his people out like sheep, took his flock safely through the wilderness. He took good care of them; they had nothing to fear. The Sea took care of their enemies for good. He brought them into his holy land, this mountain he claimed for his own. He scattered everyone who got in their way; he staked out an inheritance for them— the tribes of Israel all had their own places.
Psalms 78:55 King James Version (KJV)
He 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.
Psalms 78:55 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
He also drove out the nations before them And apportioned them for an inheritance by measurement, And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.
Psalms 78:55 New Century Version (NCV)
He forced out the other nations, and he had his people inherit the land. He let the tribes of Israel settle there in tents.
Psalms 78:55 American Standard Version (ASV)
He 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.
Psalms 78:55 New International Version (NIV)
He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.
Psalms 78:55 New King James Version (NKJV)
He also drove out the nations before them, Allotted them an inheritance by survey, And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.
Psalms 78:55 Amplified Bible (AMP)
He also drove out the nations before the sons of Israel And allotted their land as an inheritance, measured out and partitioned; And He had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents [the tents of those who had been dispossessed].
Psalms 78:55 New Living Translation (NLT)
He drove out the nations before them; he gave them their inheritance by lot. He settled the tribes of Israel into their homes.