Psalms 71:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְגַ֤ם עַד־זִקְנָ֨ה ׀ וְשֵׂיבָה֮ אֱלֹהִ֢ים אַֽל־תַּעַ֫זְבֵ֥נִי עַד־אַגִּ֣יד זְרוֹעֲךָ֣ לְד֑וֹר לְכָל־יָ֝ב֗וֹא גְּבוּרָתֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

And also until-ziqnāh and śêbāh ʾĕlōhîm not-taʿazbēnî until-ʾaggîd zərôʿăkā to dôr to all-yābôʾ gəbûrātekā

Grammar Details

• *ziqnāh*: noun, feminine singular - 'old age'
• *śêbāh*: noun, feminine singular - 'gray hair/old age'
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: noun, masculine plural - 'God'
• *taʿazbēnî*: qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - 'forsake me'
• *ʾaggîd*: hiphil imperfect, 1st person singular - 'I will declare'
• *zərôʿăkā*: noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'your arm'
• *dôr*: noun, masculine singular - 'generation'
• *yābôʾ*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - 'will come'
• *gəbûrātekā*: noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'your might'

Word Meanings

• *ziqnāh*: old age/advanced years
• *śêbāh*: gray hair/old age/advanced years
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: God/gods/divine beings
• *taʿazbēnî*: forsake me/abandon me/leave me
• *ʾaggîd*: I will declare/I will announce/I will proclaim
• *zərôʿăkā*: your arm/your strength/your power
• *dôr*: generation/age/period
• *yābôʾ*: will come/will enter/will arrive
• *gəbûrātekā*: your might/your power/your strength

Referenced Verses

• Ps 71:9 : 9 Do not give me up when I am old; be my help even when my strength is gone.
• Isa 46:4 : 4 Even when you are old I will be the same, and when you are grey-haired I will take care of you: I will still be responsible for what I made; yes, I will take you and keep you safe.
• Ps 78:4 : 4 We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done.
• Ps 78:6 : 6 So that the generation to come might have knowledge of them, even the children of the future, who would give word of them to their children;
• Ps 145:4-5 : 4 One generation after another will give praise to your great acts, and make clear the operation of your strength. 5 My thoughts will be of the honour and glory of your rule, and of the wonder of your works.
• Exod 13:8 : 8 And you will say to your son in that day, It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.
• Exod 13:14-17 : 14 And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for this? say to him, By the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt, out of the prison-house: 15 And when Pharaoh made his heart hard and would not let us go, the Lord sent death on all the first sons in Egypt, of man and of beast: and so every first male who comes to birth is offered to the Lord; but for all the first of my sons I give a price. 16 And this will be for a sign on your hand and for a mark on your brow: for by the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt. 17 Now after Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not take them through the land of the Philistines, though that was near: for God said, If the people see war, they may have a change of heart and go back to Egypt.
• 1 Sam 4:18 : 18 And at these words about the ark of God, Eli, falling back off his seat by the side of the doorway into the town, came down on the earth so that his neck was broken and death overtook him, for he was an old man and of great weight. He had been judging Israel for forty years.
• Isa 51:9 : 9 Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?
• Isa 53:1 : 1 Who would have had faith in the word which has come to our ears, and to whom had the arm of the Lord been unveiled?
• Ps 22:31 : 31 They will come and make his righteousness clear to a people of the future because he has done this.
• Gen 27:1 : 1 Now when Isaac was old and his eyes had become clouded so that he was not able to see, he sent for Esau, his first son, and said to him, My son: and he said, Here am I.
• Acts 13:36 : 36 Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:
• 1 Chr 29:10-30 : 10 So David gave praise to the Lord before all the people; and David said, Praise be to you, O Lord the God of Israel, our father for ever and ever. 11 Yours, O Lord, is the strength and the power and the glory, and the authority and the honour: for everything in heaven and on earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are lifted up as head over all. 12 Wealth and honour come from you, and you are ruler over all, and in your hand is power and strength; it is in your power to make great, and to give strength to all. 13 So now, our God, we give you praise, honouring the glory of your name. 14 But who am I and what is my people, that we have power to give so freely in this way? for all things come from you, and what we have given you is yours. 15 For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on. 16 O Lord our God, all this store, which we have made ready for the building of a house for your holy name, comes from your hand and is yours. 17 And I am conscious, my God, that you are the searcher of hearts, taking pleasure in righteousness. As for me, with an upright heart I have freely given all these things; and I have seen with joy your people who are here to make their offerings freely to you. 18 O Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the deepest thoughts of your people, and let their hearts be fixed and true to you; 19 And give to Solomon my son a true heart, to keep your orders, your rules, and your laws, and to do all these things, and to put up this great house for which I have made ready. 20 And David said to all the people, Now give praise to the Lord your God. And all the people gave praise to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with bent heads worshipping the Lord and the king. 21 And they made offerings to the Lord, and gave burned offerings to the Lord, on the day after, a thousand oxen, a thousand sheep, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and a great wealth of offerings for all Israel. 22 And with great joy they made a feast before the Lord that day. And they made Solomon, the son of David, king a second time, putting the holy oil on him to make him holy to the Lord as ruler, and on Zadok as priest. 23 So Solomon was put on the seat of the Lord as king in place of his father David, and everything went well for him; and all Israel was under his authority. 24 And all the chiefs and the men of war and all the sons of King David put themselves under the authority of Solomon the king. 25 And the Lord made Solomon great in the eyes of all Israel, clothing him with glory and honour such as no other king in Israel had had before him. 26 Now David, the son of Jesse, was king over all Israel. 27 For forty years he was ruling as king over Israel, seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. 28 And he came to his end after a long life, full of days and great wealth and honour; and Solomon his son became king in his place. 29 Now all the acts of David, first and last, are recorded in the words of Samuel the seer, and the words of Nathan the prophet, and the words of Gad the seer; 30 Together with all his rule and his power, and the events which took place in his time, in Israel and in all the kingdoms of other lands.
• 1 Sam 4:15 : 15 Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes were fixed so that he was not able to see.