I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.
Parallel translations
- KJV I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
- BSB I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.
- NKJV I said, “O my God, Do not take me away in the midst of my days; Your years are throughout all generations.
- NASB I say, “My God, do not take me away in the middle of my days, Your years are throughout all generations.
- NLT But I cried to him, “O my God, who lives forever, don’t take my life while I am so young!
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Hab 1:12Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
- Ps 39:13Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more.”
- Ps 102:12But you, Yahweh, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations.
- Rev 1:8“I am the Alpha and the Omega, ” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
- Isa 38:10–22I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”
- Rev 1:4John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;
- Ps 90:1–2A Prayer by Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
- Ps 9:7But Yahweh reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.
- Job 36:26Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
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