Psalms 71:18

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto [this] generation, [and] thy power to every one [that] is 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 off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
• Isa 46:4 : 4 And [even] to [your] old age I [am] he; and [even] to hoar hairs will I carry [you]: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver [you].
• Ps 78:4 : 4 We will not hide [them] from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
• Ps 78:6 : 6 That the generation to come might know [them, even] the children [which] should be born; [who] should arise and declare [them] to their children:
• Ps 145:4-5 : 4 One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. 5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.
• Exod 13:8 : 8 And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, [This is done] because of that [which] the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.
• Exod 13:14-17 : 14 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What [is] this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage: 15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem. 16 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt. 17 ¶ And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not [through] the way of the land of the Philistines, although that [was] near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:
• 1 Sam 4:18 : 18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.
• Isa 51:9 : 9 ¶ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. [Art] thou not it that hath cut Rahab, [and] wounded the dragon?
• Isa 53:1 : 1 ¶ Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
• Ps 22:31 : 31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done [this].
• Gen 27:1 : 1 ¶ And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, [here am] I.
• Acts 13:36 : 36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
• 1 Chr 29:10-30 : 10 ¶ Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed [be] thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. 11 Thine, O LORD, [is] the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all [that is] in the heaven and in the earth [is thine]; thine [is] the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. 12 Both riches and honour [come] of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand [is] power and might; and in thine hand [it is] to make great, and to give strength unto all. 13 Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. 14 But who [am] I, and what [is] my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things [come] of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. 15 For we [are] strangers before thee, and sojourners, as [were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow, and [there is] none abiding. 16 O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name [cometh] of thine hand, and [is] all thine own. 17 I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee. 18 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee: 19 And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all [these things], and to build the palace, [for] the which I have made provision. 20 And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king. 21 And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, [even] a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, [and] a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel: 22 And did eat and drink before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed [him] unto the LORD [to be] the chief governor, and Zadok [to be] priest. 23 ¶ Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him. 24 And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king. 25 And the LORD magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him [such] royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel. 26 Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel. 27 And the time that he reigned over Israel [was] forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three [years] reigned he in Jerusalem. 28 And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead. 29 Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer, 30 With all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.
• 1 Sam 4:15 : 15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.