Discovery BoxPsalms 71:17-18 
Context71:17 O God, you have taught me since I was young,
and I am still declaring 1 your amazing deeds.
71:18 Even when I am old and gray, 2
O God, do not abandon me,
until I tell the next generation about your strength,
and those coming after me about your power. 3
Psalms 71:24
Context71:24 All day long my tongue will also tell about your justice,
for those who want to harm me 4 will be embarrassed and ashamed. 5
1 tn Heb “and until now I am declaring.”
2 tn Heb “and even unto old age and gray hair.”
3 tn Heb “until I declare your arm to a generation, to everyone who comes your power.” God’s “arm” here is an anthropomorphism that symbolizes his great strength.
4 tn Heb “those who seek my harm.”
5 tn Heb “will have become embarrassed and ashamed.” The perfect verbal forms function here as future perfects, indicating future actions which will precede chronologically the action expressed by the main verb in the preceding line.
