Psalm 78:1–8
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.