1. Hear my teaching, my people.Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
2. I will open my mouth in a parable.I will utter dark sayings of old,
3. Which we have heard and known,and our fathers have told us.
4. We will not hide them from their children,telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
5. For he established a covenant in Jacob,and appointed a teaching in Israel,which he commanded our fathers,that they should make them known to their children;
6. that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born;who should arise and tell their children,