Psalms 78:1-7

Thomson(i) 1 On understanding. By Asaph. Attend, my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth with parables; I will utter dark sayings of old; 3 such as we have heard and known, which our fathers have related to us. 4 They were not hid from their children: one generation told another the praises of the Lord, his acts of power, and the wonders which he hath done. 5 Thus he raised up a testimony in Jacob, and established a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to make known to their children: 6 that the succeeding generation; the children to be born, might know it, and rise and tell the same to their children: 7 that they might put their trust in God, and not forget the works of God, but seek diligently his commandments;