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;