Psalms 71:18

Now also when I am old and grayheaded Better, And even when I am old and grayheaded: lit. and even unto old age and gray hairs. Cp. 1 Samuel 12:2; Isaiah 46:4.

until&c. Better with R.V.,

Until I have declared thy strength unto (the next) generation,

Thy might unto every one that is to come.

Thy strength, lit., thine arm, implies more than power; it suggests "thoughts of guidance, support, protection, government, chastisement, conflict, victory." (Kay). Cp. Psalms 77:15; Isaiah 53:1. &c. It is more natural to supply the next(R.V.) than thiswith generation. But generationneeds some qualification; and the Syr. (with which the LXX nearly agrees) may be right in reading, until I have declared thy strength, and thy might to the generation to come. Cp. Psalms 22:30-31, and the note there.