1 Give ear, O my people, to my law:incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable:I will utter dark sayings of old:
3 which we have heard and known,and our fathers have told us.
4 We will not hide them from their children,showing to the generation to comethe praises of the Lord, and his strength,and his wonderful works that he hath done.
5 For he established a testimony in Jacob,and appointed a law in Israel,which he commanded our fathers,that they should make them known to their children:
6 that the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: