Psalm 78:2-8

American Standard Version

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 Jehovah,
And his strength, and his wondrous 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 that should be born;
Who should arise and tell 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 ^[a]that set not their heart aright,
And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.