我们的祖宗倚靠你；他们倚靠你，你便解救他们。

我们的祖宗倚靠你；他们倚靠你，你解救他们。

我们的祖宗倚靠你；他们倚靠你，你解救他们。

我们的祖先信靠你，他们信靠你，你就拯救他们。

我们的列祖倚靠你，他们倚靠你，你就救他们。

我们的祖先依靠你；他们依靠你，你就解救他们。

我們的祖宗倚靠你；他們倚靠你，你便解救他們。

我們的祖宗倚靠你；他們倚靠你，你解救他們。

我們的祖宗倚靠你；他們倚靠你，你解救他們。

我們的祖先信靠你，他們信靠你，你就拯救他們。

我們的列祖倚靠你，他們倚靠你，你就救他們。

我們祖宗所倚靠的是你；他們倚靠你，你便解救了他們。

我們的祖先依靠你；他們依靠你，你就解救他們。

我之列祖、惟爾是恃、彼倚賴爾、爾救援之兮、

我之列祖、惟爾是賴、蒙爾拯救兮、

我儕列祖皆倚賴主、倚賴主即蒙救援、

夫主固吾族之所口碑兮。精靈夙彪炳乎歌詩。

In you our ancestors put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them.

Our people of long ago put their trust in you. They trusted in you, and you saved them.

In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them.

Our ancestors trusted in you, and you rescued them.

Our ancestors trusted in you; they trusted, and you rescued them.

In You our fathers trusted; They trusted and You rescued them.

Our fathers trusted in You; They trusted, and You delivered them.

Our fathers trusted in thee: They trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

Our fathers trusted in You; they trusted, and You rescued them.

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

In you our ancestors trusted; they trusted in you and you rescued them.

Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them.

Moses answered the people,“ Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again.The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.” (niv)

We have heard it with our ears, O God; our ancestors have told us what you did in their days, in days long ago.With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our ancestors; you crushed the peoples and made our ancestors flourish.It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them.You are my King and my God, who decrees victories for Jacob.Through you we push back our enemies; through your name we trample our foes.I put no trust in my bow, my sword does not bring me victory;but you give us victory over our enemies, you put our adversaries to shame. (niv)

Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him,“ So shall your offspring be.”Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead— since he was about a hundred years old— and that Sarah’s womb was also dead.Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.This is why“ it was credited to him as righteousness.” (niv)

And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant. (niv)

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise.And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own.If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.Instead, they were longing for a better country— a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son,even though God had said to him,“ It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones.By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward.By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible.By faith he kept the Passover and the application of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned.By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the army had marched around them for seven days.By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, (niv)

Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness. (niv)

Then Samuel took a suckling lamb and sacrificed it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. He cried out to the Lord on Israel’s behalf, and the Lord answered him.While Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to engage Israel in battle. But that day the Lord thundered with loud thunder against the Philistines and threw them into such a panic that they were routed before the Israelites.The men of Israel rushed out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, slaughtering them along the way to a point below Beth Kar.Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying,“ Thus far the Lord has helped us.” (niv)

Then the man said,“ Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.” (niv)

Then Jacob prayed,“ O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, Lord, you who said to me,‘ Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,’I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps.Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children.But you have said,‘ I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.’” (niv)