1. Give ear, O my people, to my torah; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2. I will open my mouth in a mashal; I will utter dark sayings from of old,
3. Which we have heard and known, and Avoteinu have told us.
4. We will not hide them from their banim, recounting to the dor acharon the tehillot Hashem, and His power, and His nifla'ot (wonderful works) that He hath done.
5. For He established edut in Ya'akov, set torah in Yisroel, which He commanded Avoteinu, that they should make them known to their banim;
6. So that the dor acharon might know them, even the banim which should be born; who should arise and recount them to their banim;
7. That they might put their confidence in Elohim, and not forget the ma'allei El (works of G-d), but keep His mitzvot;
8. And might not be as their Avot, a dor sorer u'moreh (stubborn and rebellious generation); a generation that set not its lev aright, and whose ruach was not faithful to G-d.
9. The Bnei Ephrayim, being armed, and shooting keshet (the bows), turned back in the day of battle.
10. They kept not the Brit Elohim, and refused to walk in His torah;