Psalm 78
Attendite, popule
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Hear my teaching, O my people; *
incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
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I will open my mouth in a parable; *
I will utter dark sayings of old,
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Which we have heard and known, *
and such as our forefathers have told us;
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That we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come, *
but show the honor of the Lord, his mighty and wonderful works that he has done.
5
He made a covenant with Jacob, and gave Israel a law, *
which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children;
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That their posterity might know it, *
and the children which were yet unborn;
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With the intent that when they came up *
they might show it to their children,
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That they might put their trust in God, *
and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;
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And not be as their forefathers, a faithless and stubborn generation, *
a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit did not cleave steadfastly to God;
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Like the children of Ephraim, archers carrying bows, *
who turned back in the day of battle.
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They did not keep the covenant of God, *
and would not walk in his law;
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But forgot what he had done, *
and the wonderful works that he had shown them.
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Marvelous things he did in the sight of our forefathers, *
in the land of Egypt, even in the field of Zoan.
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He divided the sea and let them go through; *
he made the waters to stand in a heap.
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In the daytime he led them with a cloud, *
and all the night through with a light of fire.
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He split the hard rocks in the wilderness *
and gave them drink in abundance, as out of the great deep.
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He brought waters out of the stony rock, *
so that it gushed out like the rivers.
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Yet for all this they sinned more against him, *
and provoked the Most High in the wilderness.