Thomson(i)
2 I will open my mouth with parables; I will utter dark sayings of old;
3 such as we have heard and known, which our fathers have related to us.
4 They were not hid from their children: one generation told another the praises of the Lord, his acts of power, and the wonders which he hath done.
5 Thus he raised up a testimony in Jacob, and established a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to make known to their children:
6 that the succeeding generation; the children to be born, might know it, and rise and tell the same to their children:
7 that they might put their trust in God, and not forget the works of God, but seek diligently his commandments;
8 that they might not be like their fathers; a perverse and rebellious generation; a generation which set not their hearts aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
9 The sons of Ephraim, who bend and shoot the bow, were turned back in the day of battle.