(what wise men have told, and their fathers have not hidden,
Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.
“I will show you, hear me; and what I have seen I will declare
to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them).
Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed upon earth,
“For inquire, I pray you, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have found;
So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, till I proclaim thy might to all the generations to come. Thy power
The living, the living, he thanks thee, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children thy faithfulness.