1. Remember your Creatorin the days of your youth,before the days of trouble comeand the years approach when you will say,‘I find no pleasure in them’ –
2. before the sun and the lightand the moon and the stars grow dark,and the clouds return after the rain;
3. when the keepers of the house tremble,and the strong men stoop,when the grinders cease because they are few,and those looking through the windows grow dim;
4. when the doors to the street are closedand the sound of grinding fades;when people rise up at the sound of birds,but all their songs grow faint;