Psalms 44:1

For the end, for alternate strains by the sons of Korah; for instruction, a Song concerning the beloved. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 matter: 1 I declare my works to the king: 1 My tongue is the pen of a quick writer. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 13:14And if thy son should ask thee hereafter, saying, What is this? then thou shalt say to him, With a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Numbers 21:27Therefore say they who deal in dark speeches, 1 Come to Heshbon, 1 That the city of Sihon may be built and prepared. 1

Judges 6:13And Gideon said to him, Be gracious with me, my Lord: but if the Lord is with us, why have these evils found us? and where are all his miracles, which our fathers have related to us, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt? and now he has cast us out, and given us into the hand of Midian.

Job 15:17But I will tell thee, hearken to me; 1 I will tell thee now what I have seen; 1

Psalms 42:1A Psalm of David. 1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: 1 Deliver me from the unjust and crafty man. 1

Psalms 77:5And he raised up a testimony in Jacob, 1 And appointed a law in Israel, 1 Which he commanded our fathers, 1 To make it known to their children: 1

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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