'Forefathers' in the Bible

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.God, we have heard with our ears—our ancestors have told us—the work You accomplished in their days,in days long ago:

Remember not for us the iniquities of forefathers, Haste, let Thy mercies go before us, For we have been very weak.

Let his ancestors’ guiltbe remembered before the Lord,and do not let his mother’s sin be blotted out.