Mazmur 78:3-4

78:3 What we have heard and learned ¹  –

that which our ancestors ²  have told us –

78:4 we will not hide from their ³  descendants.

We will tell the next generation

about the Lord’s praiseworthy acts, ⁴ 

about his strength and the amazing things he has done.

Mazmur 78:6-7

78:6 so that the next generation, children yet to be born,

might know about them.

They will grow up and tell their descendants about them. ⁵ 

78:7 Then they will place their confidence in God.

They will not forget the works of God,

and they will obey ⁶  his commands.

[78:3]  ¹ tn Or “known.”

[78:3]  ² tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 5, 8, 12, 57).

[78:4]  ³ tn The pronominal suffix refers back to the “fathers” (“our ancestors,” v. 3).

[78:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “to a following generation telling the praises of the Lord.” “Praises” stand by metonymy for the mighty acts that prompt worship. Cf. Ps 9:14.

[78:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “in order that they might know, a following generation, sons [who] will be born, they will arise and will tell to their sons.”

[78:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “keep.”