Psalms 44:1

Unto the end. For those who will be changed. To the sons of Korah, toward understanding. A Canticle for the Beloved.

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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

2My heart has uttered a good word. I speak of my works to the king. My tongue is like the pen of a scribe who writes quickly.

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Cross References

Exodus 13:14And when your son will question you tomorrow, saying, ‘What is this?’ you will respond, ‘With a strong hand the Lord led us away from the land of Egypt, from the house of servitude.

Numbers 21:27About this, it is said in the proverb: “Enter into Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be established and built.

Judges 6:13And Gideon said to him: “I beg you, my lord, if the Lord is with us, why have these things happened to us? Where are his miracles, which our fathers described when they said, ‘The Lord led us away from Egypt.’ But now the Lord has forsaken us, and he has delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

Job 15:17I will reveal to you, so listen to me; and I will explain to you what I have seen.

Psalms 42:1A Psalm of David. Judge me, O God, and discern my cause from that of a nation not holy; rescue me from a man unjust and deceitful.

Psalms 77:5And he has received testimony with Jacob, and he has set a law within Israel. Such great things, he has commanded our fathers, so as to make these things known to their sons,

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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