1. Give ear, O my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2. I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles from of old,
3. Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us:
4. We will not hide them from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done.
5. For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
6. That the generation to come might know them, the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell them to their children,
7. And that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of ·God but observe his commandments;
8. And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with ·God
9. The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.
10. They kept not the covenant of God and refused to walk in his law;
11. And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them.
12. In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.
13. He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a heap;