Our ancestors trusted in you, and you rescued 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.
- BSB In You our fathers trusted; they trusted and You delivered 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.
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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 14:31Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh, and in his servant Moses.
- Exod 14:13–14Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again.
- Gen 15:6He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.
- Gen 32:28He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
- Heb 11:8–32By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
- Rom 4:18–22Besides hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”
- Ps 44:1–7For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm. We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.
- 1 Sam 7:9–12Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to Yahweh. Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; and Yahweh answered him.
- Gen 32:9–12Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’
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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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