Psalms 71:18

Prayer Witness and mission Strength and help in weakness Faithfulness and loyalty

¹⁶ I will enter in the strength of the Lord GOD; I will proclaim Your righteousness—Yours alone.

¹⁷ O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.

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.

¹⁹ Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God, You who have done great things. Who, O God, is like You?

²⁰ Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: 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.
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.
WEB: Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
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.
DARBY: Now also, when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not, until I have proclaimed thine arm unto [this] generation, thy might to every one that is to come.
BLB: Indeed, when [I am] old and grayheaded, O God, do not forsake me, until I declare Your arm to a generation, Your strength to everyone to come.

ÅB: Forlat meg da heller ikke inntil alderdommen og de grå hår, Gud, inntil jeg får kunngjort din arm for etterslekten, din kraft for hver den som skal komme.
OTB: Og selv når jeg er gammel og grå, Gud, forlat meg ikke,
Inntil jeg forkynner din styrke til denne generasjonen,
Din kraft til alle som skal komme.
B1930: Forlat mig da heller ikke inntil alderdommen og de grå hår, Gud, inntil jeg får kunngjort din arm for efterslekten, din kraft for hver den som skal komme.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Isaiah 46:4
Even 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.
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Psalms 78:4
We 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.
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Psalms 71:9
Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.
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Psalms 145:4–5
One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
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Psalms 78:6
that the coming generation would know them— even children yet to be born— to arise and tell their own children
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Exodus 13:14–17
In 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.
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Psalms 22:31
They will come and proclaim His righteousness to a people yet unborn— all that He has done.
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1 Samuel 4:18
As 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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