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Psalms 77:5

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

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In the Hebrew text this line is Psalms 77:6.

חִשַּׁ֣בְתִּיchishavtiregardחָשַׁבverb, piel, perfect, 1st person, common, singular — “regard”, a completed actionH2803properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute(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.יָמִ֣יםyamimas long asיוֹםnoun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “as long as”, the ordinary formH3117a 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)age, [phrase] always, [phrase] chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), [phrase] elder, [idiom] end, [phrase] evening, [phrase] (for) ever(-lasting, -more), [idiom] full, life, as (so) lon…מִקֶּ֑דֶםmiqedemfrom beforeקֶדֶםpreposition, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “from before”, the ordinary formH6924the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward)aforetime, ancient (time), before, east (end, part, side, -ward), eternal, [idiom] ever(-lasting), forward, old, past. Compare H6926 (קִדְמָה).שְׁ֝נ֗וֹתshenotyearשָׁנֶהnoun, common, feminine, plural, construct — “year”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH8141a year (as a revolution of time)[phrase] whole age, [idiom] long, [phrase] old, year([idiom] -ly).עוֹלָמִֽיםolamimalwayעוֹלָםnoun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “alway”, the ordinary formH5769properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) alwaysalway(-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 ([phrase] without end). Compare H5331 (נֶצַח), H5…

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

(77-6) I have pondered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

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American Standard Version (1901)

I have considered the days of old, The years of ancient times.

Young’s Literal Translation

I have reckoned the days of old, The years of the ages.

World English Bible

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

Darby Translation

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

Douay-Rheims

And he set up a testimony in Jacob: and made a law in Israel. How great things he commanded our fathers, that they should make the same known to their children:

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

(77-6) I have pondered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

I considered the days of old, and remembered ancient years.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Διελογισάμην ἡμέρας ἀρχαίας, καὶ ἔτη αἰώνια