Psalms 78:1-13 ▼

1 Instruction to Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the sayings of my mouth.

2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter enigmas from ancient time:

3 Which we heard and we shall know them, and our fathers recounted to us.

4 It was not hid from their sons, to a later generation recounting the praises of Jehovah and his strength, and his wonders which he did.

5 For he raised up a testimony in Jacob and set a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to make them known to their sons:

6 So that a later generation shall know; sons shall be born, they shall rise up and recount to their sons.

7 And they shall set their hope in God, and they shall not forget the works of God, and they shall watch his commands.

8 And they shall not be as their fathers, a generation turning away and bitter, a generation it prepared not its heart, and its spirit was not firm with God.

9 The sons of Ephraim bending, lifting up the bow, turned in the day of the encounter.

10 They watched not the covenant of God, and in his law they refused to go;

11 And they will forget his works and his wonders which he caused them to see.

12 Before their fathers he did a wonder in the land of Egypt, the field of loading.

13 He rent the sea and he will cause them to pass through; and he will cause the waters to stand as a heap.