1. Open your ears to my teachings, my people.Turn your ears to the words from my mouth.
2. I will open my mouth to illustrate points.I will explain what has been hidden long ago,
3. things that we have heard and known about,things that our parents have told us.
4. We will not hide them from our children.We will tell the next generationabout the Lord’s power and great deedsand the miraculous things he has done.
5. He established written instructions for Jacob’s people.He gave his teachings to Israel.He commanded our ancestors to make them known to their children
6. so that the next generation would know them.Children yet to be born ⌊would learn them⌋.They will grow up and tell their children
7. to trust God, to remember what he has done,and to obey his commands.
8. Then they will not be like their ancestors,a stubborn and rebellious generation.Their hearts were not loyal.Their spirits were not faithful to God.
9. The men of Ephraim, well-equipped with bows ⌊and arrows⌋,turned ⌊and ran⌋ on the day of battle.
10. They had not been faithful to God’s promise.They refused to follow his teachings.
11. They forgot what he had done—the miracles that he had shown them.
12. In front of their ancestors he performed miraclesin the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.
13. He divided the sea and led them through it.He made the waters stand up like a wall.
14. He guided them by a cloud during the dayand by a fiery light throughout the night.