of the song (cf. v. 17), the dispossession of the nations is as yet future, yet the land is described as the present possession of Yahweh, in such terms as “thy holy abode” (v. 13), “the mountain of your inheritance” (v. 17, NIV), and so forth. Studies of this and related passages by Ronald E. Clements15 have shown how these terms were representative of the whole land, and “expressive of the belief that the whole land of Canaan now belonged to him. Thus the land was Yahweh’s to give to his people