'Fathers' in the Bible

In Thee did our fathers trust -- they trusted, And Thou dost deliver them.

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And to my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I am with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.

To the Overseer. -- By sons of Korah. An Instruction. O God, with our ears we have heard, Our fathers have recounted to us, The work Thou didst work in their days, In the days of old.

Instead of thy fathers are thy sons, Thou dost appoint them for princes in all the earth.

It cometh to the generation of his fathers, For ever they see not the light.

That we have heard and do know, And our fathers have recounted to us.

And He raiseth up a testimony in Jacob, And a law hath placed in Israel, That He commanded our fathers, To make them known to their sons.

And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God is its spirit.

Before their fathers He hath done wonders, In the land of Egypt -- the field of Zoan.

And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow,

Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.

We have sinned with our fathers, We have done perversely, we have done wickedly.

Our fathers in Egypt, Have not considered wisely Thy wonders, They have not remembered The abundance of Thy kind acts, And provoke by the sea, at the sea of Suph.

The iniquity of his fathers Is remembered unto Jehovah, And the sin of his mother is not blotted out.