Psalms 78:1-18 ▼

1 A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; stretch out your⁺ ear to the words of my mouth.

2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will pour forth things hidden from of old,

3 which we have heard and known, and our fathers have recounted to us.

4 We will not hide them from their children, recounting to a following generation: The praises of YHWH, and His strength, and His wonders that He has done.

5 For He established a testimony in Jacob, and a law He has appointed in Israel, which He commanded to our fathers, to make them known to their sons,

6 so that a following generation would know them—the sons to be born—to arise and recount to their sons,

7 that they should put their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, and keep His commandments.

8 And they should not be like their fathers—a generation being stubborn and rebellious, a generation that did not set firm its heart, and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

9 The sons of Ephraim, handling and shooting the bow, turned back on the day of battle.

10 They did not keep the covenant of God, and in His law they refused to walk,

11 and they forgot His deeds, and His wonders that He had shown them.

12 In the eyes of their fathers He did a wonder, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

13 He divided the sea and let them cross over, and the waters He made stand up like a heap.

14 And He led them with the cloud by day, and all the night with a light of fire.

15 He split open the rocks in the wilderness, and gave to drink, like the depths in abundance.

16 And He brought forth streams from the rock, and made waters come down like the rivers.

17 And they added still to sin against Him by rebelling against the Most High in the desert.

18 And they tested God in their heart, by requesting food of their soul.