O Elohim, we have heard with our ears, Our fathers have related to us, The work You did in their days, In the days of old.
They shall come and declare His righteousness To a people yet to be born, For He shall do it!
As a deer longs for the water streams, So my being longs for You, O Elohim.
And also when I am old and grey, O Elohim, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to a generation, Your might to all those who are to come.
I have thought about the days of old, The years long past.
“The living, the living – he is praising You, as I do this day. A father makes known Your truth to his children.
Relate it to your children, and your children to their children, and their children to the generation after them.
“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is the meaning of the witnesses, and the laws, and the right-rulings which יהוה our Elohim has commanded you?’
And Giḏ