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## Psalms 78:1-12 in Context (Verses 1–15 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/psalms/78/1) Give ear, O my people, *to* my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.*
 
 [2 ](/kjv/psalms/78/2) I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
 
 [3 ](/kjv/psalms/78/3) Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
 
 [4 ](/kjv/psalms/78/4) 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 ](/kjv/psalms/78/5) 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 ](/kjv/psalms/78/6) 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 ](/kjv/psalms/78/7) That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
 
 [8 ](/kjv/psalms/78/8) 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 ](/kjv/psalms/78/9) The children of Ephraim, *being* armed, *and* carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.*
 
 [10 ](/kjv/psalms/78/10) They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
 
 [11 ](/kjv/psalms/78/11) And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/psalms/78/12) Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, *in* the field of Zoan.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/psalms/78/13) He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/psalms/78/14) In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/psalms/78/15) He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave *them* drink as *out of* the great depths.
 
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