New Revised Standard Version
The living, the living, they thank you, as I do this day; fathers make known to children your faithfulness.

Contemporary English Version
Only the living can thank you, as I am doing today. Each generation tells the next about your faithfulness.

New American Bible
The living, the living give you thanks, as I do today. Parents declare to their children, O God, your faithfulness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The living, the living, he shall give praise to thee, as I do this day: the father shall make the truth known to the children.

The living, the living, he shall give praise to thee, as I do this day: the father shall make the truth known to the children.

the living

Psalm 146:2 Praise the Lord, O my soul, in my life I will praise the Lord: I will sing to my God as long as I shall be. Put not your trust in princes:

Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

John 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

the father

Genesis 18:19 For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham's sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.

Exodus 12:26,27 And when your children shall say to you: What is the meaning of this service? . . .

Exodus 13:14,15 And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What is this? thou shalt answer him: With a strong hand did the Lord bring us forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. . . .

Deuteronomy 4:9 Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons,

Deuteronomy 6:7 And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising.

Joshua 4:21,22 And said to the children of Israel: When your children shall ask their fathers tomorrow, and shall say to them: What mean these stones? . . .

Psalm 78:3-6 How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us. . . .

Psalm 145:4 Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall declare thy power.

Joel 1:3 Tell ye of this to your children, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.