| 1 Maschil of Asaph. 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, shewing to the generation to come the 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: |
| 7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: |
| 8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. |
| 9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. |
| 10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; |
| 11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. |
| 12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. |
| 13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap. |