Psalms 78:1-15

Tell the Coming Generation

A Maskil
Probably a musical or liturgical term
of bAsaph.

1 cGive ear, O my people, to my teaching;
incline your ears to the words of my mouth!
2 dI will open my mouth ein a parable;
I will utter dark sayings from of old,
3things that we have heard and known,
that our ffathers have told us.
4We will not ghide them from their children,
but htell to the coming generation
the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might,
and ithe wonders that he has done.
5 He established ja testimony in kJacob
and appointed a law in lIsrael,
which he commanded our fathers
to teach to their children,
6that mthe next generation might know them,
the children yet unborn,
and arise and tell them to their children,
7so that they should set their hope in God
and not forget nthe works of God,
but okeep his commandments;
8and that they should not be plike their fathers,
qa stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation rwhose heart was not steadfast,
whose spirit was not faithful to God.
9 The Ephraimites, armed with
Hebrew  armed and shooting
the bow,
tturned back on the day of battle.
10They udid not keep God’s covenant,
but refused to walk according to his law.
11They vforgot his works
and wthe wonders that he had shown them.
12In the sight of their fathers xhe performed wonders
in the land of Egypt, in ythe fields of Zoan.
13He zdivided the sea and let them pass through it,
and made the waters aastand like a heap.
14 abIn the daytime he led them with a cloud,
and all the night with a fiery light.
15He acsplit rocks in the wilderness
and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
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