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Remember the days of old;
    consider the years long past;
ask your father, and he will inform you,
    your elders, and they will tell you.(A)

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things that we have heard and known,
    that our ancestors have told us.(A)
We will not hide them from their children;
    we will tell to the coming generation
the glorious deeds of the Lord and his might
    and the wonders that he has done.(B)

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Psalm 44

National Lament and Prayer for Help

To the leader. Of the Korahites. A Maskil.

We have heard with our ears, O God;
    our ancestors have told us
what deeds you performed in their days,
    in the days of old:(A)

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“For inquire now of bygone generations
    and consider what their ancestors have found,(A)
for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing,
    for our days on earth are but a shadow.(B)
10 Will they not teach you and tell you
    and utter words out of their understanding?

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    remember the former things of old,
for I am God, and there is no other;
    I am God, and there is no one like me,(A)

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I consider the days of old
    and remember the years of long ago.(A)
I commune[a] with my heart in the night;
    I meditate and search my spirit:[b](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 77.6 Gk Syr: Heb My music
  2. 77.6 Syr Jerome: Heb my spirit searches

32 “For ask now about former ages, long before your own, ever since the day that God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of heaven to the other: Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has its like ever been heard of?(A)

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11 Then they[a] remembered the days of old,
    of Moses his servant.[b]
Where is the one who brought them up out of the sea
    with the shepherds of his flock?
Where is the one who put within them
    his holy spirit,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 63.11 Heb he
  2. 63.11 Cn: Heb his people

14 When in the future your child asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall answer, ‘By strength of hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.(A)

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11 I will call to mind the deeds of the Lord;
    I will remember your wonders of old.(A)
12 I will meditate on all your work
    and muse on your mighty deeds.

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13 Gideon answered him, “But sir, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our ancestors recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has cast us off and given us into the hand of Midian.”(A)

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52 When I think of your ordinances from of old,
    I take comfort, O Lord.(A)

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Has his steadfast love ceased forever?
    Are his promises at an end for all time?(A)

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They think in their heart, “We shall not be moved;
    throughout all generations we shall not meet adversity.”(A)

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