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 =Psalm 78=

The Warning-Mirror of History from Moses to David
GIVE ear, O my people, to my teaching,

Incline your ear to the utterances of my mouth.

I will open my mouth with a parable,

I will pour forth riddles out of the days of old.

What we have heard, and become conscious of,

And our fathers have told us,

We will not hide from their children ;

Telling to the generation to come the glorious deeds of

Jahve, And His proof of power and His wonders, which He hath

done.

He hath established a testimony in Jacob

And laid down a law in Israel,

Which He hath commanded our fathers

To make it known unto their children ;

In order that the generation to come might know it, the

children born afterwards, That they might arise and tell it again to their children, And might place their confidence in Elohim, And might not forget the deeds of God, And might keep His command