(A)One generation shall praise Your works to another,
And shall declare Your mighty acts.

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Which we have heard and known,
And our fathers have told us.
(A)We will not hide them from their children,
(B)Telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.

For (C)He established a testimony in Jacob,
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers,
That (D)they should make them known to their children;
(E)That the generation to come might know them,
The children who would be born,
That they may arise and declare them to their children,
That they may set their hope in God,
And not forget the works of God,
But keep His commandments;

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18 Now also (A)when I am old and grayheaded,
O God, do not forsake me,
Until I declare Your strength to this generation,
Your power to everyone who is to come.

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19 The living, the living man, he shall praise You,
As I do this day;
(A)The father shall make known Your truth to the children.

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(A)You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

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Redemption Remembered in Present Dishonor

To the Chief Musician. A (A)Contemplation[a] of the sons of Korah.

44 We have heard with our ears, O God,
(B)Our fathers have told us,
The deeds You did in their days,
In days of old:
(C)You drove out the [b]nations with Your hand,
But them You planted;
You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 44:1 Heb. Maschil
  2. Psalm 44:2 Gentiles, heathen

21 Then he spoke to the children of Israel, saying: (A)“When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What are these stones?’ 22 then you shall let your children know, saying, (B)‘Israel crossed over this Jordan on (C)dry land’; 23 for the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, (D)which He dried up before us until we had crossed over, 24 (E)that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the Lord, that it is (F)mighty, that you may (G)fear the Lord your God [a]forever.”

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 4:24 Lit. all days

26 (A)And it shall be, when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ 27 that you shall say, (B)‘It is the Passover sacrifice of the Lord, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our households.’ ” So the people (C)bowed their heads and worshiped.

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14 (A)So it shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall say to him, (B)‘By strength of hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh was stubborn about letting us go, that (C)the Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast. Therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all males that open the womb, but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’

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