1 Hear my teaching, my people.Turn 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,telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
5 For he established a covenant in Jacob,and appointed a teaching in Israel,which he commanded our fathers,that they should make them known to their children;
6 that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born;who should arise and tell their children,
7 that they might set their hope in God,and not forget God’s deeds,but keep his commandments,