“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.
Church Fathers on Psalms 44:1
1. This Psalm is addressed “to the sons of Korah,” as its title shows. Now Korah is equivalent to the word baldness; and we find in the Gospel that our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified in “the place of a skull.” It is clear then that this Psalm is sung to the “sons of His 'Passion.'” Now we have on this point a most certain and most evident testimony from the Apostle Paul; because that at the time when the Church was suffering under the persecutions of the Gentiles, he quoted…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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