Psalms 44:1

We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times 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

2How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.

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Cross References

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

Numbers 21:27Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:

Judges 6:13And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD has forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

Job 15:17I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

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