Quotes About History

Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.

Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,

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.

consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.

He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the waters on foot; there we rejoiced in Him.

I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.

I will remember the works of the LORD; yes, I will remember Your wonders of old.

I will reflect on all You have done and ponder Your mighty deeds.

With power You redeemed Your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah

I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,

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

They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.

He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.

when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.

He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.

He ordained it as a testimony for Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt, where I heard an unfamiliar language:

saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,

of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.

Even Assyria has joined them, lending strength to the sons of Lot. Selah