Psalms 78:1-13 ▼

1 A wise instruction of Asaph. Heare my lawe O my people: enclyne your eares vnto the wordes of my mouth.

2 I wyll open my mouth in a parable: I wyll declare harde sentences of the olde tyme past.

3 Which we haue hearde and knowen: and such as our fathers haue tolde vs.

4 We wyll not hyde them from their children: nay we wyll set foorth in wordes to the generation to come, the prayses of God, and his myght and wonderfull workes that he hath done.

5 For he reuiued a statute in Iacob, and gaue Israel a lawe: in the whiche he commaunded our forefathers to teache their children.

6 To the intent the posteritie shoulde knowe it, and children whiche shalbe borne: that they shoulde ryse vp and declare it to their children.

7 That they shoulde put their trust in God, and not forget the workes of God: but kepe his commaundementes.

8 And that they be not as their forefathers were a rebellious and a mutable generation: a generation that directed not their heart aright, and whose spirite cleaued not stedfastly vnto God.

9 Like as the children of Ephraim, which beyng harnessed & carying bowes: turned their backes in the day of battayle.

10 They kept not the couenaunt of God: and they woulde not walke in his law.

11 But they forgat his workes: and his wonders which he had shewed them.

12 Marueylous thinges dyd he in the sight of their fathers: in the land of Egypt, in the fielde of Zoan.

13 He deuided the sea and let them go thorowe: he made the waters to stande as on an heape.