Apr 6, 2019
1 My people, hear my teaching;
listen to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth with a
parable;
I will utter hidden things, things from of
old—
3 things we have heard and known,
things our ancestors have told us.
4 We will not hide them from their
descendants;
we will tell the next generation
the praiseworthy deeds of
the Lord,
his power, and the wonders he has
done.
5 He decreed statutes for
Jacob
and established the law in Israel,
which he commanded our
ancestors
to teach their children,
6 so the next generation would know
them,
even the children yet to be born,
and they in turn would tell their
children.
7 Then they would put their trust in
God
and would not forget his
deeds
but would keep his commands.
8 They would not be like their
ancestors—
a stubborn and
rebellious generation,
whose hearts were not loyal to
God,
whose spirits were not faithful to
him.
9 The men of
Ephraim, though armed with bows,
turned back on the day of battle;
10 they did not keep God’s
covenant
and refused to live by his law.
11 They forgot what he had done,
the wonders he had shown them.
12 He did miracles in the sight of their
ancestors
in the land of Egypt, in the region of
Zoan.
13 He divided the sea and led them
through;
he made the water stand up like a
wall.
14 He guided them with the cloud by
day
and with light from the fire all
night.
15 He split the rocks in the
wilderness
and gave them water as abundant as the
seas;
16 he brought streams out of a rocky
crag
and made water flow down like
rivers.