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“For inquire now of bygone generations
    and consider what their ancestors have found,(A)

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18 what sages have told
    and their ancestors have not hidden,(A)

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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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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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For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, so that by steadfastness and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.(A)

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11 These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down to instruct us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.(A)

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19 The living, the living, they thank you,
    as I do this day;
fathers make known to children
    your faithfulness.(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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Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite answered:

“I am young in years,
    and you are aged;
therefore I was timid and afraid
    to declare my opinion to you.(A)
I said, ‘Let days speak
    and many years teach wisdom.’

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10 The gray-haired and the aged are on our side,
    those older than your father.(A)

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12 Is wisdom with the aged
    and understanding in length of days?(A)

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