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To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

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:

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.

Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.