O God,we have heardwith our ears,Our fathershave toldus The workthat You didin their days,In the daysof old.
They will comeand will declareHis righteousnessTo a peoplewho will be born,that He has performed[it].
As the deerpantsfor the waterbrooks,Somy soulpantsfor You, O God.
And evenwhen[I am] oldand gray,O God,do not forsakeme, UntilI declareYour strengthto [this] generation,Your powerto allwho are to come.
I have consideredthe daysof old,The yearsof longago.
"It is the livingwho givethanksto You, as I do today;A fathertellshis sonsaboutYour faithfulness.
Tellyour sonsabout it, And [let] your sons[tell] their sons,And their sonsthe nextgeneration.
"Whenyour sonasksyou in timeto come,saying,'What[do] the testimoniesand the statutesand the judgments[mean] whichthe LORDour Godcommandedyou?'
Then Gideonsaidto him, "Omy lord,if the LORDis with us, whythen has allthishappenedto us? And whereare allHis miracleswhichour fatherstoldus about, saying,'Did not the LORDbringus up from Egypt?'But nowthe LORDhas abandonedus and givenus into the handof Midian."
