Psaumes 143:5

Louis Segond

Je me souviens des jours d'autrefois, Je médite sur toutes tes oeuvres, Je réfléchis sur l'ouvrage de tes mains.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Je me souviens des jours d'autrefois; je médite toutes tes œuvres; je m'entretiens des ouvrages de tes mains.

Darby's French Translation
Je me souviens des jours d'autrefois, je pense à tous tes actes, je médite les oeuvres de tes mains.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Il me souvient des jours anciens; je médite tous tes faits, [et] je discours des œuvres de tes mains.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

remember: Psalms 42:6, Psalms 77:5, Psalms 77:6, Psalms 77:10-12, Psalms 111:4, Deuteronomy 8:2, Deuteronomy 8:3, 1 Samuel 17:34-37, 1 Samuel 17:45-50, Isaiah 63:7-14, Micah 6:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:63 - to meditate Nehemiah 4:14 - remember Psalms 77:3 - spirit Psalms 77:12 - meditate Psalms 111:2 - sought Psalms 119:52 - remembered Isaiah 26:8 - desire Isaiah 63:11 - he remembered Amos 9:11 - as in Jonah 2:7 - I remembered Micah 7:14 - as 1 Timothy 4:15 - Meditate

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I remember the days of old,.... Former times he had read and heard of, in which the Lord appeared for his people that trusted in him; or the former part of his own life, his younger days, when the Lord delivered him from the lion and bear, and from the uncircumcised Philistine, whom he slew; and made him victorious in battles, and preserved him from the rage and malice of Saul. If this was written on account of Absalom, those times of deliverance he called to mind, in order to encourage his faith and hope, and cheer his drooping spirits;

I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands; the works of creation and providence, in order to observe the instances of divine power, wisdom, and goodness in them; and from thence fetch arguments, to engage his trust and confidence in the Lord: he both thought of these things within himself, and he "talked" w of them to his friends that were with him, as the last of these words used may signify; and all this he did to cheer his own spirit, and the spirits of the men that were with him, in the time of distress and danger.

w אשוחח "loquor", Piscator; "sermocinatus sum", Cocceius; "aut colloquor", Gejerus, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I remember the days of old - Former times.

(1) as contrasted with my present condition.

(2) as times when I called upon thee, and thou didst interpose.

(3) as encouraging me now to come to thee, and spread out my case before thee. See Psalms 77:5-11, note; Psalms 42:4, note.

I meditate on all thy works ... - On what thou hast done; on thy gracious interpositions in the time of trial; on the manifestations of thy power in my behalf, and in behalf of thy people. I call all this to mind, remembering that thou art an unchangeable God; that thou hast the same power still; that thou canst interpose now as thou didst then; and that, as an unchangeable God, thou wilt do it in the same circumstances. I, therefore, come to thee, and pray that thou wilt interpose in my behalf.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 143:5. I remember the days of old — Thou hast often helped me, often delivered me. I will therefore trust in thee, for thy mercy is not clean gone from me.