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18 what sages have told
    and their ancestors have not hidden,(A)

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“For inquire now of bygone generations
    and consider what their ancestors have found,(A)

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19 The living, the living, they thank you,
    as I do this day;
fathers make known to children
    your faithfulness.(A)

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things that we have heard and known,
    that our ancestors have told us.(A)
We will not hide them from their children;
    we will tell to the coming generation
the glorious deeds of the Lord and his might
    and the wonders that he has done.(B)

He established a decree in Jacob
    and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our ancestors
    to teach to their children,(C)
that the next generation might know them,
    the children yet unborn,
and rise up and tell them to their children,(D)

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18 So even to old age and gray hairs,
    O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might
    to all the generations to come.[a]
Your power(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 71.18 Gk Compare Syr: Heb to a generation, to all who come

10 The gray-haired and the aged are on our side,
    those older than your father.(A)

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