Dia dos avós
Os avós são tesouros vivos de sabedoria e fé. A Bíblia honra os mais velhos e celebra a transmissão de fé entre gerações — dos avós aos netos e destes aos que virão.
A bênção dos avós
A coroa dos velhos são os filhos dos filhos. A misericórdia de Deus é de geração em geração sobre os que o temem.
The crown of eld [or old] men is the sons of sons; and the glory of sons is the fathers of them.
But the mercy of the Lord is from without beginning, and till into with-out end; on men dreading him. And his rightfulness [or rightwiseness]is into the sons of sons;
I was younger, and soothly I waxed eld; and I saw not a just [or rightwise] man forsaken, neither his seed seeking bread.
Generation and generation shall praise thy works; and they shall pro-nounce, either tell afar, thy power.
for the Lord is sweet, his mercy is without end; and his truth is in generation and into generation.
Força e fidelidade
Mesmo na velhice darão frutos. Os cabelos brancos são coroa de glória. Deus não abandona seus filhos na idade avançada.
Yet they shall be multiplied in plenteous eld age; and they shall be suffering well.
That they tell, that our Lord God is rightful [or right]; and no wicked-ness is in him.
A crown of dignity is eld age, that shall be found in the ways of rightfulness [or rightwiseness].
Till to eld I myself, and till to hoar hairs, I shall bear; I made, and I shall bear, and I shall save.
Young men shall fail, and shall travail, and young men shall fall down in their sickness.
But they that hope in the Lord, shall change strength, they shall take feathers as eagles; they shall run, and shall not travail; they shall go, and shall not fail.
Therefore keep thyself, and thy soul busily; forget thou not the words which thine eyes have seen, and fall they not down from thine heart, in all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach those [or them]to thy sons, and thy sons’ sons.