1 Take heed, my people, to my law, incline your ear to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable, and I will speak divination of old.
3 What we have heard, and learned, and our fathers have told us,
4 Let us not hide from their children, declaring to the generation to come the glory of the Lord, and his power, and his wonders which he hath wrought.
5 And he made a statute in Jacob, and laid down a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to declare to their children,
6 that the generation to come, the children that shall be born, may know, and that they may in due time declare to their children,
7 to put their hope in God, and not to forget the works of God, and to keep his commandments,
8 and not to be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, unsettled in heart, and unfaithful to God in spirit.
9 And the sons of Ephraim, armed, shooting bows, turned back in the day of battle, saying,
10 and they have not kept the covenant of God, and have denied to walk in his law;
11 and they have forgotten his works, and the wonders which he hath shewed unto them.
12 And he did wonders in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan;
13 He divided the sea, and led them through it, and made the waters a wall;
14 And he led them by day with a cloud, and all night long with the light of fire;
15 He cut a stone in the wilderness, and gave them to drink as out of a great abyss;
16 Out of the rock he brought forth streams, and the waters flowed like rivers.
17 And they continued to sin against him, and to provoke the Most High to anger in the wilderness.
18 They tempted God in their hearts, demanding food according to their souls,
19 And they spoke against God, and said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?"
20 Behold, He struck a stone, and waters flowed, and streams flowed. "Can He also give bread, can He prepare meat for His people?"
21 And the Lord heard, and was kindled with wrath, and fire was kindled against Jacob, and wrath was moved against Israel