Psalms 77:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I have considered the days of old, The years of ancient times.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָ֭חַזְתָּ שְׁמֻר֣וֹת עֵינָ֑י נִ֝פְעַ֗מְתִּי וְלֹ֣א אֲדַבֵּֽר

Transliteration

ʾāḥaztā šəmurôṯ ʿênāy nip̄ʿamtî and-not ʾădabbēr

Grammar Details

• *ʾāḥaztā*: 2nd person masculine singular perfect - you have held
• *šəmurôṯ*: feminine plural noun - watches/eyelids
• *ʿênāy*: dual noun + 1st person singular possessive suffix - my eyes
• *nip̄ʿamtî*: 1st person singular niphal perfect - I was troubled/disturbed
• *ʾădabbēr*: 1st person singular piel imperfect - I speak

Word Meanings

• *ʾāḥaztā*: you have held/you have seized/you have kept
• *šəmurôṯ*: watches/eyelids/guards of the night
• *ʿênāy*: my eyes/my sight
• *nip̄ʿamtî*: I was troubled/I was disturbed/I was agitated
• *ʾădabbēr*: I speak/I talk/I utter

Referenced Verses

• Ps 143:5 : 5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy doings; I muse on the work of thy hands.
• Isa 51:9 : 9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Is it not thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the monster?
• Deut 32:7 : 7 Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask thy father, and he will show thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.
• Ps 44:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work thou didst in their days, In the days of old.
• Ps 74:12-18 : 12 Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth. 13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters. 14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness. 15 Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers. 16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun. 17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made summer and winter. 18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.
• Isa 63:9-9 : 9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. 10 But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself fought against them. 11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people, [saying], Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit in the midst of them? 12 that caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? that divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name? 13 that led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they stumbled not? 14 As the cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah caused them to rest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name. 15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained toward me.
• Mic 7:14-15 : 14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage, which dwell solitarily, in the forest in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. 15 As in the days of thy coming forth out of the land of Egypt will I show unto them marvellous things.