Psalm 78 v1-8 of 72 "O my people, hear my teaching; parables I will unfold." To the tune Ottawa

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Psalm 78 v1-8 of 72
"O my people, hear my teaching; parables I will unfold."
Tune: Ottawa
Falkirk Free Church
The images are only intended to provide resonances with some aspects of the psalm; they are not intended as a one-to-one correspondences. They are more like visual cross-references.

PSALM 78 8 7 8 7 7 7

1-2 O my people, hear my teaching;
parables I will unfold.
Give attention as I utter
dark and hidden things of old—
3 things that we have heard and known;
by our fathers they were shown.

4 We will tell them to our children,
generations yet to come;
We will show the LORD’s great power
and the wonders he has done.
5 Laws for Israèl he made,
statutes firm to be obeyed.

These he ordered our forefathers
to their families to tell,
6 So the coming generation,
not yet born, would know them well,
and their children, in their turn,
God’s commands and laws would learn.

7 Then to God they would be faithful,
mindful of what he had done—
8 Not like their disloyal fathers,
stubborn rebels every one;
for God’s word they had denied
and his precepts they defied....

65 ... Then the Lord awoke from slumber,
as a man with wine replete
Wakes recovered from his stupor.
66 Then he made his foes retreat;
like a rabble they became,
put to everlasting shame.

67 He passed by the tents of Joseph,
and the tribe of Ephraim;
68 But he chose the tribe of Judah,
and Mount Zion, loved by him.
69 There he built his dwelling sure,
like the earth, to stand secure.

70 So he chose his servant David,
71 bringing him from tending sheep,
To be shepherd of his people,
God’s inheritance to keep.
72 Faithfully by David fed,
they with skilful hands were led.