Psalms 71:18 · 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. {when...: Heb. unto old age and gray hairs} {thy strength: Heb. thine arm}”
— Psalms 71:18
O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
Thy righteousness also, O God, {is} very high, who hast done great things: O God, who {is} like unto thee!
Psalms 71 — Context
I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, {even} of thine only.
17O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
18Now 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. {when...: Heb. unto old age and gray hairs} {thy strength: Heb. thine arm}
19Thy righteousness also, O God, {is} very high, who hast done great things: O God, who {is} like unto thee!
20{Thou}, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
Cross References
Isaiah 46:4
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}.
Psalms 78:4
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.
Psalms 71:9
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
Psalms 145:4-5
One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
Psalms 78:6
That the generation to come might know {them, even} the children {which} should be born; {who} should arise and declare {them} to their children:
Exodus 13:14-17
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: {in...: Heb. to morrow}
Psalms 22:31
They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done {this}.
Isaiah 51:9
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?