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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, Consider the years of generation to generation; Ask thy father, and he will shew thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee. (Deut. 32:7)
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Isa. 63:11• 11But he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people: 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 within him, (Isa. 63:11)

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Psa. 74:12‑18• 12But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth.
 13*Thou* didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:
 14*Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.
 15*Thou* didst cleave fountain and torrent, *thou* driedst up ever-flowing rivers.
 16The day is thine, the night also is thine; *thou* hast prepared the moon and the sun:
 17*Thou* hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter--*thou* didst form them.
 18Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name. (Psa. 74:12‑18)
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Psa. 143:5• 5I remember the days of old: I meditate on all thy doing; I muse on the work of thy hands. (Psa. 143:5)
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Deut. 32:7• 7Remember the days of old, Consider the years of generation to generation; Ask thy father, and he will shew thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee. (Deut. 32:7)
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Isa. 51:9• 9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, as in the generations of passed ages. Is it not thou that hath hewn Rahab in pieces, and pierced 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 grieved 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: 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 within him,
 12his glorious arm leading them by the right hand of Moses, dividing the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name,
 13--who led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, and 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 glorious name.
 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 tender 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 shew 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. (“Psalms 77” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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