¹ Give ear, O my people, to my teaching;
    incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
² I will open my mouth in a parable;
    I will utter dark sayings from of old,
³ things that we have heard and known,
    that our ancestors have told us.
⁴ We will not hide them from their children;
    we will tell to the coming generation
the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might,
    and the wonders that he has done.

¹¹ They forgot what he had done,
    and the miracles that he had shown them.
¹² In the sight of their ancestors he worked marvels
    in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.
¹³ He divided the sea and let them pass through it,
    and made the waters stand like a heap.
¹⁴ In the daytime he led them with a cloud,
    and all night long with a fiery light.
¹⁵ He split rocks open in the wilderness,
    and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
¹⁶ He made streams come out of the rock,
    and caused waters to flow down like rivers.