1Yo fam, listen up to my words; tune in to what I’m saying, fr.

2I’m about to drop some parables; gonna spill some old-school wisdom, no cap.

3We’ve heard this before, and our fam has passed it down to us, periodt.

4We ain’t gonna hide this from the kids; we gotta show the next gen how lit God is and all the dope stuff He’s done.

5He set up a testimony in Jacob and laid down the law in Israel, telling our peeps to share it with the kids, bet.

6So the future squad can know it too, even the little ones who haven’t been born yet; they gotta rise up and share it with their homies.

7So they can put their trust in God and not forget His dope moves, but keep it real with His commandments.

8And we don’t want them to be like their parents, all stubborn and wild; we need a generation whose vibes are right with God.

9The squad from Ephraim, all geared up and ready to pop off, straight up dipped when the battle started.

10They didn’t keep it 100 with God’s covenant and straight-up ignored His law; that’s sus.

11They totally forgot about all the dope stuff God did for them. Like, sus vibes.

12He pulled some wild miracles right in front of their fam, straight up in Egypt, in Zoan.

13He split the sea like it was nothing, and they walked through while the water was stacked up. Goated move.

14During the day, he rolled with them in a cloud, and at night, he lit it up with fire. No cap.

15He smashed rocks in the desert and hooked them up with water like it was coming from deep down.

16Streams flowed out of the rock, like rivers just vibing everywhere. Bussin'.

17But they kept messing up, getting all savage with the Most High in the wilderness.

18They lowkey tested God in their hearts, asking for food to satisfy their cravings.

19For real, they were talking smack about God, like, "Can God set a table out here in the wild?"

20Check it, he hit the rock and water exploded out; streams were overflowing. Like, can he also drop bread and meat for his squad?

21So the Lord peeped this and got mad, lit fire against Jacob, and was like, "Nah" to Israel.

22'Cause they weren't vibing with God and didn't trust His save.

23Even though He was flexing by commanding clouds and opening heaven's doors,

24He rained down manna for them to munch on, and gave them that corn straight from heaven.

25People were eating angel food, no cap; He sent them meat till they were full.

26He made an east wind blow from the sky, and with His power, He brought in the south wind.

27He rained down meat like it was dust, and birds like the sand on the beach:

28And it fell right in their camp, all around their spots.

29So they feasted and were stuffed, 'cause He gave them what they were craving;

30They weren't holding back on their desires. But while they were still chewing on the meat,

31God's wrath hit hard, taking out the biggest of them, and straight-up smiting the chosen ones of Israel.

32Even after all that, they still messed up and didn’t vibe with His amazing works.

33So, He wasted their days on drama and their years on struggle, no cap.

34When He took them out, they finally sought Him and were like, "Where’s God at?"

35They remembered God was their rock, the ultimate high-key savior.

36But still, they were out here hyping Him up with their mouths, lying with their words, sus.

37Their hearts weren’t right with Him, and they weren’t loyal to His deal.

38But He was full of compassion, forgave their mess-ups, and didn’t wipe them out: for real, He held back His anger a lot.

39He remembered they were just human; a breeze that blows by and doesn’t come back.

40Like, how often did they test Him in the wild and make Him feel some type of way in the desert?

41Fr, they bounced back and tested God, putting limits on the Holy One of Israel.

42They totally forgot His moves, like the day He saved them from their foes.

43How He flexed His signs in Egypt and showed off wonders in Zoan, no cap.

44He turned their rivers into blood; their floods were so sus, they couldn’t even sip.

45He sent all kinds of flies to snack on them, and frogs were just savage, taking them out.

46He gave their harvest to the caterpillar and their grind to the locust, straight up.

47He wrecked their vines with hail and froze their sycamore trees, vibes.

48He let hail mess with their cattle and threw their flocks under hot thunderbolts, wild.

49He unleashed His anger, wrath, and trouble, sending evil angels to mess with them.

50He made a path for His anger; He didn’t save their souls from death, just gave them up to the pestilence.

51God straight up took out all the firstborn in Egypt, like, savage move, hitting the strongholds of Ham.

52But he led his crew out like sheep, guiding them through the wild like a boss.

53He kept them safe, no cap, while the sea just wrecked their enemies.

54He brought them to the edge of his holy spot, this mountain he totally claimed.

55He kicked out the outsiders in front of them, split the land for them, and set up Israel in their tents.

56But they tested the most high God, and didn’t keep it real with his rules.

57They bounced back and acted sus like their fam: totally went off track like a broken bow.

58They made him mad with their high places and got him jealous with their idols.

59When God peeped this, he was furious and couldn't stand Israel anymore.

60So he ghosted the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he set up among peeps.

61He straight-up handed over his strength and glory to the opps. Major sus vibes.

62He let his squad get wrecked by the sword and was mad at his own people, no cap.

63The fire took out their young bucks, and the girls weren’t even getting hitched.

64Their priests got taken out by the sword, and the widows were just silent, savage.

65Then the Lord woke up like he just had a wild dream, ready to pop off.

66He smacked his enemies from behind, putting them on blast forever.

67He ghosted Joseph’s tabernacle and wasn't feeling Ephraim’s tribe, fr.

68But he vibed with Judah's tribe, the mount Zion he loved, periodt.

69He built his sanctuary like a lit palace, solid as the earth he made forever.

70He picked David, his homie, straight outta the sheepfolds, goated move.

71He was chillin' with the pregnant sheep, then he came through to hook up Jacob and his crew, like, that's the fam vibe.

72So he fed them with mad heart and gave them the best guidance, no cap.

1Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

2I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

3Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

4We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

5For 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:

6That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

7That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

8And 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.

9The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

10They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

11And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.

12Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

13He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

14In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

15He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

16He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

17And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

19Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

20Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?

21Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

22Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

23Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.

25Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.

26He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.

27He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:

28And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.

29So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

30They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

31The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

32For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.

35And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

36Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

37For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

38But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

39For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

42They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

43How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:

44And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

45He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

46He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

47He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.

48He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

50He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

51And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

52But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

53And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

54And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

55He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

59When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

60So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

61And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.

62He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.

63The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

64Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

65Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

66And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

67Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

68But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

69And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

70He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

71From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

72So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.