Psalms 71:18

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Wherfore whylest I am olde and am gray headed: O Lorde forsake me not, vntyll I haue shewed thy arme vnto this generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for 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 Cast me not away in the tyme of age: forsake me not when my strength fayleth me.
• Isa 46:4 : 4 It is euen I whiche shall beare you vnto your last age: I haue made you, I wyll also norishe you, beare you, and saue you.
• Ps 78:4 : 4 We wyll not hyde them from their children: nay we wyll set foorth in wordes to the generation to come, the prayses of God, and his myght and wonderfull workes that he hath done.
• Ps 78:6 : 6 To the intent the posteritie shoulde knowe it, and children whiche shalbe borne: that they shoulde ryse vp and declare it to their children.
• Ps 145:4-5 : 4 One generation shal praise thy workes vnto another: and they shall declare thy mightie power. 5 I wyll set foorth in wordes the glorious maiestie of thy excellentnesse: and thy wonderous workes.
• Exod 13:8 : 8 And thou shalt shewe thy sonne in that day, saying: This is done because of that whiche the Lorde dyd vnto me when I came out of Egypt.
• Exod 13:14-17 : 14 And when thy sonne aske thee in time to come, saying: what is this? Thou shalt saye vnto hym: With a myghtie hande the Lorde brought vs out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 15 And when Pharao was very loth to let vs go, the Lorde slewe all the first borne in the lande of Egypt, aswell the first borne of man, as the firstlyng of beast: Therefore I sacrifice vnto the Lorde all the males that open the matrice: but all the first borne of my chyldren I redeeme. 16 This shalbe as a token vppon thyne hande, & as a remembraunce betweene thyne eyes, that the Lorde brought vs out of Egypt through a myghtie hande. 17 It came to passe, that when Pharao had let the people go, God caryed them not through the way of the lande of the Philistines, which was the more nygh way. But God saide: lest peraduenture the people repent whe they see warre, and so turne agayne to Egypt.
• 1 Sam 4:18 : 18 And when he made mention of the arke of God, Eli fell from of his stoole backward by the side of the gate, and his necke brake, and he dyed: For he was an olde man and heauy, and iudged Israel fourtie yeres?
• Isa 51:9 : 9 Wake vp, wake vp, and be strong O thou arme of the Lorde, wake vp, lyke as in tyme past, euer, and since the world began.
• Isa 53:1 : 1 But who hath geuen credence vnto our preaching? or to whom is the arme of the Lorde knowen?
• Ps 22:31 : 31 They wyll come and declare his righteousnesse vnto a people that shalbe borne: for he hath done it.
• Gen 27:1 : 1 And it came to passe, that whe Isahac waxed olde, & his eyes were dimme, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest sonne, & saide vnto hym, my sonne? And he sayde vnto hym: here am I.
• Acts 13:36 : 36 For Dauid, after he had serued his tyme, by the wyll of God fell on slepe, and was layde vnto his fathers, and sawe corruption:
• 1 Chr 29:10-30 : 10 And Dauid blessed the Lorde before all the congregation, and sayde: Blessed be thou Lorde God of Israel, our father from euer and for euer. 11 Thyne O Lorde is greatnesse, and power, glory, victorie, and prayse: for all that is in heauen and in earth is thyne, and thyne is the kingdome O Lorde, and thou excellest aboue all, euen as the head of all. 12 And richesse and honour come of thee, and thou raignest ouer all, and in thyne hande is power & strength, and in thyne hand it is to make great and to geue strength vnto all. 13 And nowe our God we thanke thee, and prayse thy glorious name. 14 But who am I? and what is my people? that we should enforce our selues to geue these thinges so willingly? But all thinges come of thee, & of that which we receaued at thyne hand, we haue geuen thee. 15 For we be but straungers before thee, and soiourners, as were al our fathers: Our dayes on the earth also are but as a shadowe, and there is none abiding. 16 O Lorde our God, all this stuffe that we haue prepared to builde thee an house for thy holy name, commeth of thyne hand, and is all thyne. 17 I wot also my God that thou tryest the heartes, and hast pleasure in vnfaynednesse, & in the vnfaonednesse of myne heart I haue wyllingly offered al these thinges: And now haue I seene thy people which are founde here to offer vnto thee wyllyngly, and with gladnesse. 18 O Lorde God of Abraham, Isahac, and of Israel our fathers, keepe this for euer in the desire of the thoughtes of the heart of thy people, & prepare their heartes vnto thee. 19 And geue vnto Solomon my sonne a perfect heart, to keepe thy commaundementes, thy testimonies, & thy statutes, and to do all, and builde the house, for the which I haue made prouision. 20 And Dauid saide to all the congregation: Now blesse the Lorde your God. And all the congregation blessed the Lorde God of their fathers, and bowed downe their heades, and worshipped the Lorde and the king. 21 And they offered offringes vnto the Lorde: And on the morowe after the saide day, they offred burnt offringes vnto the Lorde, euen a thousand young oxen, a thousand rammes, and a thousand sheepe, with their drinke offrings: Many sacrifices offred they for all Israel, 22 And did eate & drinke before the Lord the same day with great gladnesse: And they made Solomon the sonne of Dauid king the second time, and annoynted him prince before the Lorde, and Zadoc to be the hie priest. 23 And Solomon sate on the seate of the Lorde, and was king in steade of Dauid his father, and prospered: and all they of Israel obeyed him. 24 And all the lordes and men of power, and all the sonnes of king Dauid, submitted them selues, & were vnder king Solomon. 25 And the Lorde magnified Solomon in dignitie in the sight of all them of Israel, and gaue him so glorious a kingdome, as no king had before him in Israel. 26 And so Dauid the sonne of Isai raigned ouer all Israel. 27 And the space that he raigned ouer Israel, was fouretie yeres: Seuen yeres raigned he in Hebron, and thirtie and three yeres raigned he in Hierusalem. 28 And he dyed in a good age, ful of dayes, riches, and honour: and Solomon his sonne raigned in his steade. 29 The actes of Dauid the king first and last, beholde they are written in the booke of Samuel the sear, and in the booke of Nathan the prophete, and in the booke of Gad the sear: 30 With all his kingdome, and power, and times, that went ouer him, & ouer all Israel, and ouer all the kingdomes of the earth.
• 1 Sam 4:15 : 15 Eli was 98 yeres olde, & his sight failed, him that he could not see.