Tell the Coming Generation
A Maskil of aAsaph.
bGive ear, O my people, to my teaching;
incline your ears to the words of my mouth!
2 aI will open my mouth bin a parable;
I will utter dark sayings from of old,
3 things that we have heard and known,
that our afathers have told us.
4 We will not ahide them from their children,
but btell to the coming generation
the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might,
and cthe wonders that he has done.
5 He established aa testimony in bJacob
and appointed a law in bIsrael,
which he commanded our fathers
to teach to their children,
6 that athe next generation might know them,
the children yet unborn,
and arise and tell them to their children,
7 so that they should set their hope in God
and not forget athe works of God,
but bkeep his commandments;
8 and that they should not be alike their fathers,
ba stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation cwhose heart was not steadfast,
whose spirit was not faithful to God.