Psalm 78:1-7

¹   Give ear, O my people, to my teaching;
incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
²   I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter dark sayings from of old,
³   things that we have heard and known,
that our ancestors have told us.
⁴   We will not hide them from their children;
we will tell to the coming generation
the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might,
and the wonders that he has done.

⁵   He established a decree in Jacob,
and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our ancestors
to teach to their children;
⁶   that the next generation might know them,
the children yet unborn,
and rise up and tell them to their children,
⁷        so that they should set their hope in God,
and not forget the works of God,
but keep his commandments;