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Psalm 77

Psa. 77:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I have considered
chashab (Hebrew #2803)
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Pronounce: khaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
t the days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
of old
qedem (Hebrew #6924)
from 6923; the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward)
KJV usage: aforetime, ancient (time), before, east (end, part, side, -ward), eternal, X ever(-lasting), forward, old, past. Compare 6926.
Pronounce: keh'-dem
Origin: or qedmah {kayd'-maw}
, the years
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
of ancient times
`owlam (Hebrew #5769)
from 5956; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
KJV usage: alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-))ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare 5331, 5703.
Pronounce: o-lawm'
Origin: or lolam {o-lawm'}
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Deut. 32:7• 7Remember the days of old,{HR}Consider the years of generation to generation;{HR}Ask thy father, and he will show thee;{HR}Thine elders, and they will tell thee.{HR} (Deut. 32:7)
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Isa. 63:11• 11But he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people, [saying], Where [is] he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where [is] he that put his holy Spirit in the midst of him, (Isa. 63:11)

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Psa. 74:12‑18• 12Yet (And) God [is] my king of old{HR}Working deliverances in the midst of the earth.
 13Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength;{HR}Thou didst break the heads of dragons on the waters;
 14Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan,{HR}Thou gavest it as food to a people dwelling in the wilderness.
 15Thou didst cleave fount and torrent,{HR}Thou didst dry up rivers ever flowing.
 16Day is thine, yea, thine, night.{HR}Thou didst prepare light and sun;
 17Thou didst set all the borders of earth;{HR}Summer and winter, thou didst form them.
 18Remember this: an enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah,{HR}And a foolish people have despised thy name. (Psa. 74:12‑18)
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Psa. 143:5• 5I remembered days of old;{HR}I meditated on all thy doings;{HR}On the work of thy hands I mused. (Psa. 143:5)
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Deut. 32:7• 7Remember the days of old,{HR}Consider the years of generation to generation;{HR}Ask thy father, and he will show thee;{HR}Thine elders, and they will tell thee.{HR} (Deut. 32:7)
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Isa. 51:9• 9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the ancient days, the generations of old. [Art] thou not he that cut Rahab in pieces, [and] wounded the monster? (Isa. 51:9)
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Isa. 63:9‑15• 9In 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 bore them and carried them all the days of old.
 10But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit: and he turned to be their enemy; himself, he fought against them.
 11But he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people, [saying], Where [is] he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where [is] he that put his holy Spirit in the midst of him,
 12his glorious arm leading [them] by the hand of Moses, dividing the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name,
 13who led them through the depths; as a horse in the wilderness [that] they stumbled not?
 14As cattle go down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah gave them rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a name of glory.
 15Look down from the heavens, 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? Are they restrained toward me? (Isa. 63:9‑15)
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Mic. 7:14‑15• 14Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine inheritance, dwelling alone in the forest, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
 15—As in the days of thy coming forth out of the land of Egypt, will I show them marvellous things. (Mic. 7:14‑15)
• He was seeking to find some solution for his exercise in the experience of others in the days of old. (“Psalm 77” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I consider the days of old, the years of ancient times.

W. Kelly Translation

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I consider the days of old,{HR}The years of ancient times.