Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Cast me not off at the time of old age, According to the consumption of my power forsake me not.
New American Standard Bible
Do not forsake me when my strength fails.
King James Version
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
Holman Bible
as my strength fails, do not abandon me.
International Standard Version
Don't throw me away when I am old; do not abandon me when my strength fails.
A Conservative Version
Cast me not off in the time of old age. Forsake me not when my strength fails.
American Standard Version
Cast me not off in the time of old age; Forsake me not when my strength faileth.
Amplified
Do not cast me off nor send me away in the time of old age;
Do not abandon me when my strength fails and I am weak.
Bible in Basic English
Do not give me up when I am old; be my help even when my strength is gone.
Darby Translation
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou wilt not cast me off to the time of old age; as my strength fails thou wilt not forsake me.
King James 2000
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not cast me away in the time of old age; when my strength fails do not abandon me.
Modern King James verseion
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Cast me not away in mine old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth me.
NET Bible
Do not reject me in my old age! When my strength fails, do not abandon me!
New Heart English Bible
Do not reject me in my old age. Do not forsake me when my strength fails.
The Emphasized Bible
Do not cast me off in the time of old age, When my vigour faileth, do not forsake me;
Webster
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
World English Bible
Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my strength fails.
Themes
Consolation under Affliction » Under the infirmities of age
Decrepitude » Ps 71; ec 12 general references to » Prayer concerning
Long life » Examples of vigorous » Feebleness in
Long life » Old age ps 71; ec 12 » Prayer concerning
Interlinear
Shalak
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 71:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Prayer To God The Rock Of Refuge
8 Filled is my mouth with Thy praise, All the day with Thy beauty. 9 Cast me not off at the time of old age, According to the consumption of my power forsake me not. 10 For mine enemies have spoken against me, And those watching my soul have taken counsel together,
Cross References
Psalm 71:18
And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might.
Isaiah 46:4
Even to old age I am He, and to grey hairs I carry, I made, and I bear, yea, I carry and deliver.
2 Samuel 19:35
A son of eighty years I am to-day; do I know between good and evil? doth thy servant taste that which I am eating, and that which I drink? do I hearken any more to the voice of singers and songstresses? and why is thy servant any more for a burden unto my lord the king?
2 Samuel 21:15-17
And again have the Philistines war with Israel, and David goeth down, and his servants with him, and they fight with the Philistines; and David is weary,
Psalm 73:26
Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age.
Psalm 90:10
Days of our years, in them are seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet is their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.
Psalm 92:13-15
Those planted in the house of Jehovah, In the courts of our God do flourish.
Ecclesiastes 12:1-7
Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth, While that the evil days come not, Nor the years have arrived, that thou sayest, 'I have no pleasure in them.'
2 Timothy 1:12
for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard -- to that day.
2 Timothy 4:18
and the Lord shall free me from every evil work, and shall save me -- to his heavenly kingdom; to whom is the glory to the ages of the ages! Amen.