⁷ Remember the ancient days,
Consider the years from generation to generation.
^(A)Ask your father, and he will declare to you,
Your elders, and they will speak to you.

⁵ I give thought to the ^(A)days of old,
The years of long ago.

⁹ In all their distress ^[a](A)He was distressed,
And the ^(B)angel of His presence saved them;
In His ^(C)love and in His mercy He ^(D)redeemed them,
And He ^(E)lifted them and carried them all the ancient days.