1. A [maskil] of Asaf: Listen, my people, to my teaching; turn your ears to the words from my mouth.

2. I will speak to you in parables and explain mysteries from days of old.

3. The things which we have heard and known, and which our fathers told us

4. we will not hide from their descendants; we will tell the generation to come the praises of ADONAI and his strength, the wonders that he has performed.

5. He raised up a testimony in Ya'akov and established a [Torah] in Isra'el. He commanded our ancestors to make this known to their children,

6. so that the next generation would know it, the children not yet born, who would themselves arise and tell their own children,

7. who could then put their confidence in God, not forgetting God's deeds, but obeying his [mitzvot.]

8. Then they would not be like their ancestors, a stubborn, rebellious generation, a generation with unprepared hearts, with spirits unfaithful to God.

9. The people of Efrayim, though armed with bows and arrows, turned their backs on the day of battle.

10. They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to live by his [Torah].

11. They forgot what he had done, his wonders which he had shown them.

12. He had done wonderful things in the presence of their ancestors in the land of Egypt, in the region of Tzo'an.

13. He split the sea and made them pass through, he made the waters stand up like a wall.

14. He also led them by day with a cloud and all night long with light from a fire.

15. He broke apart the rocks in the desert and let them drink as if from boundless depths;

16. yes, he brought streams out of the rock, making the water flow down like rivers.