Psalm 78:1-8

Common English Bible

78 Listen, my people, to my teaching;
    tilt your ears toward the words of my mouth.
² I will open my mouth with a proverb.
    I’ll declare riddles from days long gone—
³         ones that we’ve heard and learned about,
        ones that our ancestors told us.
⁴ We won’t hide them from their descendants;
    we’ll tell the next generation
    all about the praise due the Lord and his strength—
    the wondrous works God has done.
⁵ He established a law for Jacob
    and set up Instruction for Israel,
        ordering our ancestors
        to teach them to their children.
⁶ This is so that the next generation
    and children not yet born will know these things,
        and so they can rise up and tell their children
⁷     to put their hope in God—
        never forgetting God’s deeds,
        but keeping God’s commandments—
⁸     and so that they won’t become like their ancestors:
    a rebellious, stubborn generation,
        a generation whose heart wasn’t set firm
        and whose spirit wasn’t faithful to God.