Psalms 78:4-18

⁴We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done.

⁵He put up a witness in Jacob, and made a law in Israel; which he gave to our fathers so that they might give knowledge of them to their children;

⁶So that the generation to come might have knowledge of them, even the children of the future, who would give word of them to their children;

⁷So that they might put their hope in God, and not let God's works go out of their minds, but keep his laws;

⁸And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

⁹The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, were turned back on the day of the fight.

¹⁰They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law;

¹¹They let his works go out of their memory, and the wonders which he had made them see.

¹²He did great works before the eyes of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.

¹³The sea was cut in two so that they might go through; the waters were massed together on this side and on that.

¹⁴In the daytime he was guiding them in the cloud, and all through the night with a light of fire.

¹⁵The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

¹⁶He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.

¹⁷And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land;

¹⁸Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.