Common English Bible CEB
New Revised Standard NRS
1 Listen, my people, to my teaching; tilt your ears toward the words of my mouth.
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Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth with a proverb. I'll declare riddles from days long gone—
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I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,
3 ones that we've heard and learned about, ones that our ancestors told us.
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things that we have heard and known, that our ancestors have told us.
4 We won't hide them from their descendants; we'll tell the next generation all about the praise due the LORD and his strength— the wondrous works God has done.
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We will not hide them from their children; we will tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done.
5 He established a law for Jacob and set up Instruction for Israel, ordering our ancestors to teach them to their children.
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He established a decree in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach to their children;
6 This is so that the next generation and children not yet born will know these things, and so they can rise up and tell their children
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that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and rise up and tell them to their children,
7 to put their hope in God— never forgetting God's deeds, but keeping God's commandments—
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so that they should set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;