Psalms 78:1-16

¹“A Maskil of Assaph.” Give ear, O my people, to my instruction: incline thy ear to the words of my mouth.

²I will open with a parable my mouth: I will utter riddles out of ancient times;

³Which we have heard and know, and which our fathers have related unto us.

⁴We will not conceal them from their children, relating to the latest generation the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful deeds which he hath done.

⁵Yea, he established a testimony in Jacob, and instituted a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

⁶In order that the latest generation might know them, even the children that are to be born; that they may arise and relate them to their children;

⁷That they may place in God their hope, and not forget the doings of God, but observe his commandments;

⁸And that they may not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that had not directed their heart firmly, and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

⁹The children of Ephraim, like well-armed archers, that turn round on the day of battle,

¹⁰Kept not the covenant of God, and in his law they refused to walk;

¹¹And they forgot his deeds, as also his wonders, which he had permitted them to see.

¹²In the presence of their fathers did he do wonders, in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zo'an.

¹³He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters stand upright as a wall.

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

¹⁵He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the mighty deep.

¹⁶And he brought forth running streams out of the rock, and caused water to run down like rivers.