Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.
Parallel translations
- KJV Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
- BSB Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.
- NKJV Do not cast me off in the time of old age; Do not forsake me when my strength fails.
- NASB Do not cast me away at the time of my old age; Do not abandon me when my strength fails.
- NLT And now, in my old age, don’t set me aside. Don’t abandon me when my strength is failing.
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- Isa 46:4Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.
- 2 Tim 1:12For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
- Ps 71:18Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
- Ps 92:13–15They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.
- Ps 90:10The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
- Eccl 12:1–7Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;
- Ps 73:26My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
- 2 Tim 4:18And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
- 2 Sam 19:35I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?
- 2 Sam 21:15–17The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;
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