1. Listen, O my people, to my teaching. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2. I will offer a parable with my mouth. I will pour out riddles from long ago,
3. that we have heard and known, and our ancestors have told us.
4. We will not hide them from their children, telling the next generation the praises of Yahweh, and his power and his wonders that he has done.
5. For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach to their children,
6. so that the next generation might know— children yet to be born— that they might rise up and tell their children,
7. that they might set their confidence in God, and not forget the deeds of God, but keep his commandments,
8. and not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not make ready its heart, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
9. The sons of Ephraim, armed with archers, turned back on the day of battle.
10. They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to go in his law.
11. They also forgot his deeds, and his wonders that he had shown them.
12. In front of their ancestors he did a wonder, in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
13. He split the sea and caused them to go over, and he caused waters to stand like a heap.
14. And he led them with the cloud by day, and all night with a fiery light.
15. He caused rocks to split in the wilderness and provided drink abundantly as from the depths.
16. And he brought streams out of the rock and caused water to flow down like rivers.
17. But they sinned still further against him by rebelling against the Most High in the desert.