Isaiah 38:19

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

“Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.

My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.

Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,

Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.

For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as great as this thing is, or has been heard like it?

Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.

Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his deeds with singing.

I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.”

and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Whoever rebels against your commandment, and doesn’t listen to your words in all that you command him shall himself be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”

For I have kept Yahweh’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honor all day long.

The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her;” the Most High himself will establish her.

Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children.

I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.

Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected.

When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?”

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’

You shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in the future, saying, ‘What do you mean by these stones?’

“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.

(which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;

Day after day they pour out speech, and night after night they display knowledge.

We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of Yahweh of Armies, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever.

Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.

One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.

Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.

Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine; yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.

For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works.

While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.