^{2 Ref} I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

^{3 Ref} Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

^{4 Ref} We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

^{5 Ref} For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

^{6 Ref} That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

^{7 Ref} That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

^{8 Ref} And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

^{9 Ref} The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.