1 Give ear, O my people, to my law;

Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

2 I will open my mouth in a bparable;

I will utter 2dark sayings of old,

3 Which we have heard and known,

And our fathers have told us.

4 cWe will not hide them from their children,

dTelling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,

And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.

5 For eHe established a testimony in Jacob,

And appointed a law in Israel,

Which He commanded our fathers,

That fthey should make them known to their children;

6 gThat the generation to come might know them,

The children who would be born,

That they may arise and declare them to their children,

7 That they may set their hope in God,

And not forget the works of God,

But keep His commandments;

8 And hmay not be like their fathers,

iA stubborn and rebellious generation,

A generation jthat did not 3set its heart aright,

And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and 4carrying bows,

Turned back in the day of battle.

10 kThey did not keep the covenant of God;

They refused to walk in His law,

11 And lforgot His works

And His wonders that He had shown them.

12 mMarvelous things He did in the sight of their fathers,

In the land of Egypt, nin the field of Zoan.

13 oHe divided the sea and caused them to pass through;

And pHe made the waters stand up like a heap.

14 qIn the daytime also He led them with the cloud,

And all the night with a light of fire.

15 rHe split the rocks in the wilderness,

And gave them drink in abundance like the depths.

16 He also brought sstreams out of the rock,

And caused waters to run down like rivers.

17 But they sinned even more against Him

By trebelling against the Most High in the wilderness.