78 ^(B)Give ear, O my people, to my teaching;
    incline your ears to the words of my mouth!
^2 (C)I will open my mouth ^(D)in a parable;
    I will utter dark sayings from of old,
³ things that we have heard and known,
    that our ^(E)fathers have told us.
⁴ We will not ^(F)hide them from their children,
    but ^(G)tell to the coming generation
the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might,
    and ^(H)the wonders that he has done.

¹² In the sight of their fathers ^(A)he performed wonders
    in the land of Egypt, in ^(B)the fields of Zoan.
¹³ He ^(C)divided the sea and let them pass through it,
    and made the waters ^(D)stand like a heap.
^14 (E)In the daytime he led them with a cloud,
    and all the night with a fiery light.
¹⁵ He ^(F)split rocks in the wilderness
    and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
¹⁶ He made streams come out of ^(G)the rock
    and caused waters to flow down like rivers.