Psalms 44:1

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

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

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

2You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.

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Cross References

Exodus 13:14It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.

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

Judges 6:13Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

Job 15:17“I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare

Psalms 42:1As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, 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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