Psalms 44:1

We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou did in their days, in the days of old.

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In The King James Version

We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

In Context

2Thou drove out the nations with thy hand, but thou planted them. Thou afflicted the peoples, but thou spread them abroad.

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Cross References

Exodus 13:14And it shall be, when thy son asks thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shall say to him, By strength of hand LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.

Numbers 21:27Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, Come ye to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established.

Judges 6:13And Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if LORD is with us, then why has all this befallen us? And where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not LORD bring us up from Egypt? But now LORD has cast us of

Job 15:17I will show thee. Hear thou me, and that which I have seen I will declare,

Psalms 42:1As the hart pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after thee, O God.

Psalms 77:5I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 44:1

We are not told either who was the penmen of this psalm or when and upon what occasion it was penned, upon a melancholy occasion, we are sure, not so much to the penman himself (then we could have found occasions enough for it in the history of David and his afflictions), but to the church of God in general; and therefore, if we suppose it penned by David, yet we must attribute it purely to the Spirit of prophecy, and must conclude that the Spirit (whatever he himself had) had in view the captivity of Babylon, or… Read the whole commentary →

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