1  aGive ear, O my people, to my law:

Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

2  bI will open my mouth in a cparable:

I will dutter edark sayings of old:

3  Which we have heard and known,

And four fathers have told us.

4  gWe will not hide them from their children,

hShewing to the generation to come

The praises of the Lord, and his strength,

And ihis wonderful works that he hath done.

5  For he established ja testimony in kJacob,

And appointed a law in kIsrael,

Which he commanded our fathers,

gThat they should make them known to their children:

6  That lthe generation to come might know them, even mthe children which should be born;

Who should arise and gdeclare them to their children:

7  That they might set their nhope in God,

And not forget the works of God,

But nnkeep his commandments:

8  And omight not be as their fathers,

A pqstubborn and prrebellious generation;

A generation †that set not their heart aright,

And whose spirit was not sstedfast with God.

9  The children of Ephraim, being tarmed, and †carrying tubows,

wTurned back in the day of battle.

10  They kept not the covenant of God,

And refused to walk in his law;

11  And xforgat his works,

And ihis wonders that he had shewed them.

12  yMarvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers,

In the land of Egypt, in zthe field of Zoan.

13  He adivided the sea, and caused them to pass through;

And he bmade the waters to stand as an heap.

14  cIn the daytime also he led them with a cloud,

And all the night with a light of fire.

15  dHe clave the rocks in the wilderness,

And gave them drink as out of the great depths.

16  He brought ddstreams also out of ethe rock,

And caused waters to run down like rivers.

17  And they sinned yet more against him

By fprovoking the most High in the gwilderness.