September 16: Psalms 78–79

Psalms 78–79 Psalms 78–79 (Listen) Tell the Coming Generation A Maskil1 of Asaph. 78   Give ear, O my people, to my teaching;<br />    incline your ears to the words of my mouth!<br />2   I will open my mouth in a parable;<br />    I will utter dark sayings from of old,<br />3   things that we have heard and known,<br />    that our fathers have told us.<br />4   We will not hide them from their children,<br />    but tell to the coming generation<br />  the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might,<br />    and the wonders that he has done.<br /> 5   He established a testimony in Jacob<br />    and appointed a law in Israel,<br />  which he commanded our fathers<br />    to teach to their children,<br />6   that the next generation might know them,<br />    the children yet unborn,<br />  and arise and tell them to their children,<br />7     so that they should set their hope in God<br />  and not forget the works of God,<br />    but kee