{How} thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; {how} thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

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

Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul. {assuredly: Heb. in truth, or, stability}

But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, {and} mountain of holiness.

For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired {it} for his habitation.

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: {a very...: Heb. the horn of the son of oil}

Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

{How} thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; {how} thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,

Judah was his sanctuary, {and} Israel his dominion.

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

They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: {They soon...: Heb. They made haste, they forgat}

They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck {of} the abundance of the seas, and {of} treasures hid in the sand.

And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.

He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways {are} everlasting.

[A Psalm of Asaph.] O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. {of: or, for}

Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession {be} unclean, {then} pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God.