⁷ Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask your father, and he will show you; Your elders, and they will tell you.

¹ > We have heard with our ears, God; Our fathers have told us, What work you did in their days, In the days of old.

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

⁴ We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, His strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

¹¹ Then he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people, [saying], Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where is he who put his holy Spirit in the midst of them?

⁹ Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; [I am] God, and there is none like me;

⁵² I remember your ordinances of old, Yahweh, And have comforted myself.

¹¹ I will remember Yah's deeds; For I will remember your wonders of old.

¹² I will also meditate on all your work, And consider your doings.

⁵ I have considered the days of old, The years of ancient times.

⁶ I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; My spirit diligently inquires:

⁸ "Please inquire of past generations, Find out about the learning of their fathers.

⁹ (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.)

¹⁰ Shall they not teach you, tell you, And utter words out of their heart?

³² For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been [any such thing] as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?

¹⁴ It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' that you shall tell him, 'By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage;

⁸ Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?

⁶ He says in his heart, "I shall not be shaken; For generations I shall have no trouble."

¹³ Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? and where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Yahweh bring us up from Egypt? but now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.