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Psalm 22

Psa. 22:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Our fathers
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
trusted
batach (Hebrew #982)
properly, to hie for refuge (but not so precipitately as 2620); figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure
KJV usage: be bold (confident, secure, sure), careless (one, woman), put confidence, (make to) hope, (put, make to) trust.
Pronounce: baw-takh'
Origin: a primitive root
in thee: they trusted
batach (Hebrew #982)
properly, to hie for refuge (but not so precipitately as 2620); figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure
KJV usage: be bold (confident, secure, sure), careless (one, woman), put confidence, (make to) hope, (put, make to) trust.
Pronounce: baw-takh'
Origin: a primitive root
, and thou didst deliver
palat (Hebrew #6403)
to slip out, i.e. escape; causatively, to deliver
KJV usage: calve, carry away safe, deliver, (cause to) escape.
Pronounce: paw-lat'
Origin: a primitive root
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Psa. 44:1‑7• 1To the chief musician; for the sons of Korah, Maschil.{HR}O God, with our ears have we heard;{HR}Our fathers have declared unto us the work{HR}[Which] thou didst in their days, in the days of old.
2Thou [with] thy hand didst drive out the Gentiles and plant them;{HR}Thou didst evil to nations and didst send them forth.
3For not with their sword did they take possession of the land,{HR}Neither did their arm deliver them;{HR}But thy right hand and thine arm and the light of thy countenance,{HR}Because thou takedst pleasure in them.
4Thou [art] he, my king,{HR}O God; command the deliverances of Jacob.
5By thee will we push down our adversaries;{HR}In thy name will we tread under foot those that rise up against us.
6For not in my bow will I trust,{HR}And my sword shall not save me.
7For thou hast saved us from our adversaries,{HR}And those who hate us thou hast put to shame.
(Psa. 44:1‑7)
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Gen. 15:6• 6And he believed in Jehovah, and he counted it to him for righteousness. (Gen. 15:6)
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Gen. 32:9‑12,28• 9And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah, who saidst to me, Return to thy country and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee;
10I am less than all the mercies and all the truth that thou hast shown unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two companies.
11Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from Esau's hand; for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, [and] the mother with the children.
12And thou saidst, I will certainly deal well with thee, and make thy seed as sand of the sea which cannot be numbered for multitude.
28And he said, Not Jacob shall be called henceforth thy name, but Israel; for thou hast wrestled with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
(Gen. 32:9‑12,28)
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Ex. 14:13‑14,31• 13And Moses said to the people, Fear not: stand still, and see the salvation of Jehovah, which he will work for you today; for the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall see them again no more forever.
14Jehovah will fight for you, and ye shall be still.
31And Israel saw the great power with which Jehovah had wrought against the Egyptians; and the people feared Jehovah, and believed in Jehovah, and in Moses his bondman.
(Ex. 14:13‑14,31)
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1 Sam. 7:9‑12• 9And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt-offering wholly unto Jehovah: and Samuel cried unto Jehovah for Israel; and Jehovah heard him.
10And as Samuel was offering up the burnt-offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel. And Jehovah thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel.
11The children of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Beth-car.
12Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath Jehovah helped us.
(1 Sam. 7:9‑12)
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Rom. 4:18‑22• 18who against hope believed in hope, in order to his becoming father of many nations according to that which was spoken, “So shall be thy seed.”
19And not being weak in faith, he considered [not] his own body now dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,
20yet as to the promise of God wavered not through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,
21and fully persuaded that what he hath promised he is also able to perform.
22Wherefore also it was reckoned to him for righteousness.
(Rom. 4:18‑22)
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Heb. 11:8‑32• 8By faith Abraham, when called, obeyed to go out into a place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and went out not knowing where he was going.
9By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as not his own, dwelling as he did in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint-heirs of the same promise;
10for he waited for the city that hath the foundations, of which God is architect and master-builder.
11By faith also Sarah herself received power for deposition of seed even beyond season of age, since she counted faithful him that promised.
12Wherefore also there were born from one, and that one become dead, even as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as the countless sand that is by the sea-shore.
13All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and greeted, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.
14For they that say such things make plain that they seek out a country.
15And if indeed they called to mind that from which they went out, they might have had opportunity to return;
16but now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he prepared for them a city.
17By faith Abraham when tried offered up Isaac, and he that received to himself the promises was offering his only-begotten
18as to whom it was spoken, In Isaac shall thy seed be called;
19accounting that God [is] able to raise even from out of dead [men], whence also he received him back in parable.
20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
21By faith Jacob when dying blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshipped on the top of his staff.
22By faith Joseph when ending life called to mind the going forth of the sons of Israel and gave commandment concerning his bones.
23By faith Moses when born was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child beautiful; and they did not fear the order of the king.
24By faith Moses when become great refused to be called son of Pharaoh's daughter,
25choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to have temporary pleasure of sin,
26counting the Christ's reproach greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he looked off unto the recompense.
27By faith he left Egypt, not afraid of the wrath of the king; for he persevered as seeing the Invisible.
28By faith he hath celebrated the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.
29By faith they passed through the Red Sea, as through dry land, of which the Egyptians made trial and were swallowed up.
30By faith the walls of Jericho fell, having been encircled seven days.
31By faith Rahab the harlot perished not along with the disobedient, having received the spies with peace.
32And what more do I say? For the time would fail me telling of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets;
(Heb. 11:8‑32)
 (vv. 4-5) The unparalleled case of a righteous man being forsaken is made more manifest by contrasting the ways of God with all others who have put their trust in God. (Psalm 21 by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Our fathers confided in thee: they confided, and thou didst deliver them.

W. Kelly Translation

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In thee our fathers trusted;{HR}They trusted, and thou dost deliver them.