1. Now allow us to praisefamous people and our ancestors,generation by generation.
2. The Lord created great glory,his majesty from eternity.
3. They ruled in their kingdoms,and made a name with their power,some giving counselby their intelligence;some making pronouncementsin prophecies;
4. some leading the peopleby their deliberations,and by their understandingof the people’s learning,giving wise words in their instruction;
5. others devising musical melodies,and composing poems;
6. rich people endowed with strength,living in peace in their dwellings—
7. all of these were honoredin their generation,a source of pride in their time.
8. Some of them left behind a nameso that their praises might be told.
9. For some there is no memory,and they perished as thoughthey hadn’t existed.These have become as thoughthey hadn’t been born,they and even their children after them.