1. My people, listen to my teaching;listen to what I say.
2. I will speak using stories;I will tell secret things from long ago.
3. We have heard them and known themby what our ancestors have told us.
4. We will not keep them from our children;we will tell those who come laterabout the praises of the Lord.We will tell about his powerand the miracles he has done.
5. The Lord made an agreement with Jacoband gave the teachings to Israel,which he commanded our ancestorsto teach to their children.
6. Then their children would know them,even their children not yet born.And they would tell their children.
7. So they would all trust Godand would not forget what he had donebut would obey his commands.
8. They would not be like their ancestorswho were stubborn and disobedient.Their hearts were not loyal to God,and they were not true to him.
9. The men of Ephraim had bows for weapons,but they ran away on the day of battle.
10. They didn’t keep their agreement with Godand refused to live by his teachings.
11. They forgot what he had doneand the miracles he had shown them.
12. He did miracles while their ancestors watched,in the fields of Zoan in Egypt.
13. He divided the Red Sea and led them through.He made the water stand up like a wall.
14. He led them with a cloud by dayand by the light of a fire by night.
15. He split the rocks in the desertand gave them more than enough water, as if from the deep ocean.