1. 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 generationall about the praise due the Lord and his strength—the wondrous works God has done.
5. He established a law for Jacoband set up Instruction for Israel,ordering our ancestorsto teach them to their children.
6. This is so that the next generationand 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—