Psalms 78:2-12

²I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles from of old,

³Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us:

⁴We will not hide them from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done.

⁵For 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;

⁶That the generation to come might know them, the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell them to their children,

⁷And that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but observe his commandments;

⁸And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

⁹The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.

¹⁰They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

¹¹And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them.

¹²In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.