Psalms 44:1

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

2 With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.

3 For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory. It was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
KJV
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.
WEB
We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the days of old.
ASV
We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work thou didst in their days, In the days of old.
DARBY
{To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction.} O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old:
BLB
For the one directing. Of the sons of Korah. A Maskil. <span class=|reftext|><a href=|#|><b>1</b></a> O God, with our ears we have heard; our fathers have recounted to us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
ÅB
Gud, med våre ører har vi hørt, våre fedre har fortalt oss den gjerning du gjorde i deres dager, i fordums dager.
OTB
Gud, vi har hørt med våre ører,
Våre fedre har fortalt oss
Om det verk Du gjorde i deres dager,
I de gamle dager.
B1930
Gud, med våre ører har vi hørt, våre fedre har fortalt oss den gjerning du gjorde i deres dager, i fordums dager.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 78:3–6

    that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.

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  • Exodus 13:14–15

    In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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  • Deuteronomy 6:20

    In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”

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  • Judges 6:13

    “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

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  • Joel 1:3

    Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.

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  • Psalms 77:5

    I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.

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  • Psalms 42:1

    As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.

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  • Isaiah 38:19

    The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.

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