Psalms 78:1-8

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.
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