Psalms 78:1-13 ▼

1 Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

2 I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter dark sayings concerning days of old;

3 That which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us,

4 We will not hide from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, And His strength, and His wondrous works that He hath done.

5 For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children;

6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell them to their children,

7 That they might put their confidence in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep His commandments;

8 And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation; A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

9 The children of Ephraim were as archers handling the bow, That turned back in the day of battle.

10 They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in His law;

11 And they forgot His doings, And His wondrous works that He had shown them.

12 Marvellous things did He in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

13 He cleaved the sea, and caused them to pass through; And He made the waters to stand as a heap.