Psalms 78:1-14
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1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
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2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
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3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
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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.
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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:
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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:
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7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
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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.
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9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
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10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
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11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
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12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
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13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
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14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.