⁷ Remember the days of old;^(A)
    consider the generations long past.^(B)
Ask your father and he will tell you,
    your elders, and they will explain to you.^(C)

⁸ “Ask the former generation^(A)
    and find out what their ancestors learned,
⁹ for we were born only yesterday and know nothing,^(B)
    and our days on earth are but a shadow.^(C)
10 Will they not instruct^(D) you and tell you?
    Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?^(E)

⁹ Remember the former things,^(A) those of long ago;^(B)
    I am God, and there is no other;
    I am God, and there is none like me.^(C)

⁵ I thought about the former days,^(A)
    the years of long ago;
⁶ I remembered my songs in the night.
    My heart meditated and my spirit asked:

¹¹ Then his people recalled^[a] the days of old,
    the days of Moses and his people—
where is he who brought them through the sea,^(A)
    with the shepherd of his flock?^(B)
Where is he who set
    his Holy Spirit^(C) among them,