Psalms 77:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I have considered{H8765)} 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 works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
• 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?
• Deut 32:7 : 7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
• Ps 44:1 : 1 To the chief Musician{H8764)} for the sons of Korah, Maschil{H8688)}. We have heard{H8804)} with our ears, O God, our fathers have told{H8765)} us, what work thou didst{H8804)} in their days, in the times of old.
• Ps 74:12-18 : 12 For God is my King of old, working{H8802)} salvation in the midst of the earth. 13 Thou didst divide{H8782)} the sea by thy strength: thou brakest{H8765)} the heads of the dragons in the waters. 14 Thou brakest{H8765)} the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest{H8799)} him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. 15 Thou didst cleave{H8804)} the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up{H8689)} mighty rivers. 16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared{H8689)} the light and the sun. 17 Thou hast set{H8689)} all the borders of the earth: thou hast made{H8804)} summer and winter. 18 Remember{H8798)} this, that the enemy{H8802)} hath reproached{H8765)}, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed{H8765)} 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 vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he 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 shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him? 12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name? 13 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble? 14 As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him 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 is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
• Mic 7:14-15 : 14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. 15 According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.