Psalm 71:9 {70:9}
Good News Translation
Do not reject me now that I am old; do not abandon me now that I am feeble.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength is spent.

Contemporary English Version
Don't throw me aside when I am old; don't desert me when my strength is gone.

New American Bible
Do not cast me aside in my old age; as my strength fails, do not forsake me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Cast me not off in the time of old age: when my strength shall fail, do not thou forsake me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Cast me not off in the time of old age: when my strength shall fail, do not thou forsake me.

Cast

Psalm 71:18 And unto old age and grey hairs: O God, forsake me not, Until I shew forth thy arm to all the generation that is to come: Thy power,

Psalm 92:13-15 They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God. . . .

Isaiah 46:4 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel who are carried by my bowels, are borne up by my womb.

2 Timothy 1:12 For which cause, I also suffer these things: but I am not ashamed. For I know whom I have believed and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him, against that day.

2 Timothy 4:18 The Lord hath delivered me from every evil work and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom. To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

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Psalm 73:26 For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.

Psalm 90:10 The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected.

2 Samuel 19:35 I am this day fourscore years old, are my senses quick to discern sweet and bitter? or can meat or drink delight thy servant? or can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why should thy servant be a burden to my lord, the king?

2 Samuel 21:15-17 And the Philistines made war again against Israel, and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. And David growing faint, . . .

Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the time of affliction come, and the years draw nigh of which thou shalt say: They please me not: . . .

Context
In You, O LORD, I Have Taken Refuge
8Let my mouth be filled with praise, that I may sing thy glory; thy greatness all the day long. 9Cast me not off in the time of old age: when my strength shall fail, do not thou forsake me.10For my enemies have spoken against me; and they that watched my soul have consulted together,…
Cross References
Job 26:2
Whose helper art thou? is it of him that is weak? and dost thou hold up the arm of him that has no strength?

Psalm 71:18
And unto old age and grey hairs: O God, forsake me not, Until I shew forth thy arm to all the generation that is to come: Thy power,

Psalm 92:14
They shall still increase in a fruitful old age: and shall be well treated,

Psalm 119:8
I will keep thy justifications: O! do not thou utterly forsake me.

Psalm 138:8
The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: O despise not the works of thy hands.

Isaiah 46:4
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel who are carried by my bowels, are borne up by my womb.

Psalm 71:8
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