Psalms 78:1-7

¹A maskil of Asaph. My people, give ear to my teaching: bend your ears to the words of my mouth,

²as I open my mouth in a poem on the riddling story of the past.

³What we have heard and known, and what our ancestors have told us,

⁴we will not hide from their children. We will tell to the next generation the praises and might of the Lord, and the wonders that he has done.

⁵He set up a testimony in Jacob, a law he appointed in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to make known to their children,

⁶that the next generation should know it, that the children yet to be born should arise and tell their children;

⁷that in God they might put their confidence, and not forget God's works; but that they might keep his commandments,