Psalms 77:5
I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.
BSB
ASV
I have considered the days of old, The years of ancient times.
KJV
I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
I thought upon the days of old, and I had the eternal years in mind. Insofar as it lay in my sins, I was despairing, and my soul had refused to be comforted. I began to think from the beginning of the world, when God made man, all the way to my own year, from Adam down to my own time.
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Deuteronomy 32:7Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.
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I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.
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that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
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.
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Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the…
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You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;
Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and unclean will no longer enter you.
You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.
In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
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Psalms 44:1We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
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that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.