That the Generation to Come Might Know
A Maskil of Asaph.
aGive ear, O my people, to my instruction;
bIncline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will aopen my mouth in a parable;
I will pour forth bdark sayings of old,
3 Which we have heard and known,
And aour fathers have recounted to us.
4 We will anot conceal them from their children,
But brecount to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh,
And His strength and His cwondrous deeds that He has done.
5 For He established a atestimony in Jacob
And set a blaw in Israel,
Which He ccommanded our fathers
That they should dteach them to their children,
6 aThat the generation to come might know, even bthe children yet to be born,
That they may arise and crecount them to their children,
7 That they should set their confidence in God
And anot forget the deeds of God,
But bobserve His commandments,
8 And anot be like their fathers,
A bstubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that cdid not prepare its heart
And whose spirit was not dfaithful to God.