In You our fathers trusted; they trusted and You delivered them.
Parallel translations
- WEB Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them.
- KJV Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
- NKJV Our fathers trusted in You; They trusted, and You delivered them.
- NASB In You our fathers trusted; They trusted and You rescued them.
- NLT Our ancestors trusted in you, and you rescued them.
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Quick answer
The fathers of Israel trusted in God, and he delivered them. The sufferer recalls God's past faithfulness as a ground of hope.
Overview
Looking back to the patriarchs and the nation's history, the psalmist remembers that those who trusted God were rescued. This memory of God's reliability fuels continued faith amid present silence. The pattern, trust answered by deliverance, will be gloriously fulfilled in the resurrection of Christ, whose trust in the Father was vindicated.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Exod 14:31When Israel saw the great power that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and believed in Him and in His servant Moses.
- Exod 14:13–14But Moses told the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the LORD’s salvation, which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again.
- Gen 15:6Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
- Gen 32:28Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
- Heb 11:8–32By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
- Rom 4:18–22Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”
- Ps 44:1–7For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
- 1 Sam 7:9–12Then Samuel took a suckling lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the LORD. He cried out to the LORD on behalf of Israel, and the LORD answered him.
- Gen 32:9–12Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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