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.