Psalms 44:1

O God, we have heard with our ears, all our ancestors have told us of the work that you wrought in their day, your wonders in days of old,

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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

2uprooting and crushing the nations, then planting and settling them. For it wasn’t their own sword that won them the land,

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Cross References

Psalms 42:1Like the hart which longs for brooks of water, I long for you, God.

Psalms 77:5I think of the days of old, call to mind distant years.

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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