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Psalms 71:18

Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.

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ASV

Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto the next generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.

KJV

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.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְגַ֤םve.Gamand alsoH1571 →
עַד־'ad-untilH5704 →
זִקְנָ֨ה׀zik.Nahold ageH2209 →
וְשֵׂיבָה֮ve.sei.Vahand grey hairH7872 →
אֱלֹהִ֪ים'E.lo.HimO GodH430 →
אַֽל־'al-may notH408 →
תַּעַ֫זְבֵ֥נִיta.'Az.Ve.niyou forsake meH5800 →
עַד־'ad-untilH5704 →
אַגִּ֣יד'a.GidI will declareH5046 →
זְרוֹעֲךָ֣ze.ro.'a.Khastrength yourH2220 →
לְד֑וֹרle.Dorto a generationH1755 →
לְכָל־le.kholto everyH3605 →
יָ֝ב֗וֹאya.Vo'[one who] he will comeH935 →
גְּבוּרָתֶֽךָ׃ge.vu.ra.Te.khamight yourH1369 →

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Deuteronomy 4:9Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.Psalms 92:14In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,Psalms 37:25I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.John 15:16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.Isaiah 46:4Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.Psalms 71:9Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.Psalms 78:4We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.Psalms 145:4One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—Psalms 145:4–5One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—Psalms 78:6that the coming generation would know them— even children yet to be born— to arise and tell their own childrenPsalms 51:11Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.Psalms 66:16Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for me.Joel 1:3Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.Exodus 13:14–17In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.Psalms 22:31They will come and proclaim His righteousness to a people yet unborn— all that He has done.Psalms 119:8I will keep Your statutes; do not utterly forsake me.Psalms 48:13consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.1 Samuel 4:18As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.

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Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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