Psalms 78:1 (Maschil of Asaph.) Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Psalms 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Psalms 78:3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
Psalms 78:4 We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
Psalms 78:5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
Psalms 78:6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
Psalms 78:7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
Psalms 78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Psalms 78:9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
Psalms 78:10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
Psalms 78:11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
Psalms 78:12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Psalms 78:13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
Psalms 78:14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
Psalms 78:15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.