Psalms 78:1-9

1 A maskil of Asaf: Listen, my people, to my teaching; turn your ears to the words from my mouth.
2 I will speak to you in parables and explain mysteries from days of old.
3 The things which we have heard and known, and which our fathers told us
4 we will not hide from their descendants; we will tell the generation to come the praises of ADONAI and his strength, the wonders that he has performed.
5 He raised up a testimony in Ya'akov and established a Torah in Isra'el. He commanded our ancestors to make this known to their children,
6 so that the next generation would know it, the children not yet born, who would themselves arise and tell their own children,
7 who could then put their confidence in God, not forgetting God's deeds, but obeying his mitzvot.
8 Then they would not be like their ancestors, a stubborn, rebellious generation, a generation with unprepared hearts, with spirits unfaithful to God.
9 The people of Efrayim, though armed with bows and arrows, turned their backs on the day of battle.
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