Psalm 78:3

Modern

…that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.

Traditional

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

Literal

…which we have heard and known, and our fathers have recounted to us.

Latin

Quanta audivimus, et cognovimus ea, et patres nostri narraverunt nobis.

Hebrew

English

…that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.

This story of what God has done should be told from generation to generation (see Deuteronomy 6:20–25; Proverbs 4:1–4).

The introduction is an invitation to learn wisdom.

This wisdom psalm urges people to learn wisdom and share it faithfully.

Theme notes and profiles

Psalm 44:1
For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. 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.
Exodus 12:26–27
When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’
Exodus 13:8
And on that day you are to explain to your son, ‘This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
Exodus 13:14–15
In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Psalm 48:8
As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever. Selah