Psalms 78:1-13 ▼

1 AN INSTRUCTION OF ASAPH. Give ear, O my people, to my law, || Incline your ear to sayings of my mouth.

2 I open my mouth with an allegory, || I bring forth hidden things of old,

3 That we have heard and know, || And our fathers have recounted to us.

4 We do not hide from their sons, || Recounting praises of YHWH to a later generation, || And His strength, and His wonders that He has done.

5 And He raises up a testimony in Jacob, || And has placed a law in Israel, || That He commanded our fathers, || To make them known to their sons.

6 So that a later generation knows, || Sons who are born, rise and recount to their sons,

7 And place their confidence in God, || And do not forget the doings of God, || But keep His commands.

8 And they are not like their fathers, || A generation apostatizing and being rebellious, || A generation—it has not prepared its heart, || Nor [is] its spirit steadfast with God.

9 Sons of Ephraim—armed bearers of bow, || Have turned in a day of conflict.

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

11 And they forget His doings, || And His wonders that He showed them.

12 He has done wonders before their fathers, || In the land of Egypt—the field of Zoan.

13 He cleft a sea, and causes them to pass over, || Indeed, He causes waters to stand as a heap.