“We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.”
The psalmist opens by recalling what God did in days of old, how God drove out nations and established the people of Israel in the land. The invocation of past deliverance establishes the historical basis for faith: God has a history of intervening to save. The reference to what the psalmist has heard from generations before him establishes that this testimony has been transmitted across time. The opening grounds present petition in remembered history.
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