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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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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)

He established a decree in Jacob
    and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our ancestors
    to teach to their children,(C)
that the next generation might know them,
    the children yet unborn,
and rise up and tell them to their children,(D)

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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) 15 When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from human firstborn to the firstborn of animals. Therefore I sacrifice to the Lord every male that first opens the womb, but every firstborn of my sons I redeem.’(B)

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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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20 “When your children ask you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the decrees and the statutes and the ordinances that the Lord our God has commanded you?’(A)

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

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

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Book II

(Psalms 42–72)

Psalm 42

Longing for God and His Help in Distress

To the leader. A Maskil of the Korahites.

As a deer longs for flowing streams,
    so my soul longs for you, O God.(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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Psalm 105

God’s Faithfulness to Israel

O give thanks to the Lord; call on his name;
    make known his deeds among the peoples.(A)
Sing to him, sing praises to him;
    tell of all his wonderful works.(B)

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31 and[a] proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn,
    saying that he has done it.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 22.31 Compare Gk: Heb it will be told about the Lord to the generation, they will come and

18 So even to old age and gray hairs,
    O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might
    to all the generations to come.[a]
Your power(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 71.18 Gk Compare Syr: Heb to a generation, to all who come

17 “I will show you; listen to me;
    what I have seen I will declare—
18 what sages have told
    and their ancestors have not hidden,(A)
19 to whom alone the land was given,
    and no stranger passed among them.

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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)

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27 Therefore the singers say,

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

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Footnotes

  1. 21.28 Gk: Heb and the lords of
  2. 21.30 Gk: Heb we have shot at them; Heshbon has perished
  3. 21.30 Compare Sam Gk: Meaning of MT uncertain

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

“Waheb in Suphah and the wadis.
The Arnon 15 and the slopes of the wadis
that extend to the seat of Ar
and lie along the border of Moab.”[a](A)

16 From there they continued to Beer;[b] that is the well of which the Lord said to Moses, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”

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Footnotes

  1. 21.15 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 21.16 That is, well

24 You shall observe this as a perpetual ordinance for you and your children.(A) 25 When you come to the land that the Lord will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this observance. 26 And when your children ask you, ‘What does this observance mean to you?’(B) 27 you shall say, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he struck down the Egyptians but spared our houses.’ ” And the people bowed down and worshiped.(C)

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