Come to Our Help

To the choirmaster. (A)A Maskil[a] of the Sons of Korah.

44 O God, we have heard with our ears,
    (B)our fathers have told us,
what deeds you performed in their days,
    (C)in the days of old:

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  1. Psalm 44:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term

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

He established (E)a testimony in (F)Jacob
    and appointed a law in (G)Israel,
which he commanded our fathers
    to teach to their children,
that (H)the next generation might know them,
    the children yet unborn,
and arise and tell them to their children,

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14 (A)And when in time to come your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall say to him, (B)‘By a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of (C)slavery. 15 For when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the (D)Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of animals. Therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all the males that first open the womb, but (E)all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’

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

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20 (A)“When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the Lord our God has commanded you?’

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(A)Tell your children of it,
    and let your children tell their children,
    and their children to another generation.

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I consider (A)the days of old,
    the years long ago.

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Book Two

Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?

To the choirmaster. A Maskil[a] of (A)the Sons of Korah.

42 (B)As a deer pants for flowing streams,
    so pants my soul for you, O God.

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  1. Psalm 42:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term

19 The living, the living, he thanks you,
    as I do this day;
(A)the father makes known to the children
    your faithfulness.

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Tell of All His Wondrous Works

105 (A)Oh give thanks to the Lord; (B)call upon his name;
    (C)make known his deeds among the peoples!
Sing to him, sing praises to him;
    (D)tell of all his wondrous works!

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31 they shall (A)come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet (B)unborn,
    that he has done it.

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18 So even to (A)old age and gray hairs,
    O God, (B)do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
    your power to all those to come.

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17 “I will show you; hear me,
    and what I have seen I will declare
18 (what wise men have told,
    without hiding it (A)from their fathers,
19 to whom alone the land was given,
    and no (B)stranger passed among them).

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“For (A)inquire, please, of bygone ages,
    and consider what (B)the fathers have searched out.
For we are but of yesterday and know nothing,
    for our days on earth are (C)a shadow.

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27 Therefore the (A)ballad singers say,

“Come to (B)Heshbon, let it be built;
    let the city of Sihon be established.
28 For (C)fire came out from (D)Heshbon,
    flame from the city of Sihon.
It devoured (E)Ar of Moab,
    and swallowed[a] the heights of the Arnon.
29 (F)Woe to you, O Moab!
    You are undone, O people of (G)Chemosh!
He has made his sons fugitives,
    and his daughters captives,
    to an Amorite king, Sihon.
30 So we overthrew them;
    Heshbon, as far as (H)Dibon, perished;
    and we laid waste as far as Nophah;
    fire spread as far as (I)Medeba.”[b]

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  1. Numbers 21:28 Septuagint; Hebrew the lords of
  2. Numbers 21:30 Compare Samaritan and Septuagint; Hebrew and we laid waste as far as Nophah, which is as far as Medeba

14 Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord,

“Waheb in Suphah, and the valleys of the Arnon,
15 and the slope of the valleys
that extends to the seat of (A)Ar,
and leans to the border of Moab.”

16 And from there they continued (B)to Beer;[a] that is the well of which the Lord said to Moses, “Gather the people together, so that (C)I may give them water.”

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  1. Numbers 21:16 Beer means well

24 You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever. 25 And when you come to the land that the Lord will give you, (A)as he has promised, you shall keep this service. 26 And (B)when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ 27 you shall say, (C)‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people (D)bowed their heads and worshiped.

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