Verse 24

I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generations:

Referenced Verses

  • Hab 1:12 : 12 Are you not eternal, O Lord my God, my Holy One? for you there is no death. O Lord, he has been ordered by you for our punishment; and by you, O Rock, he has been marked out to put us right.
  • Ps 102:12 : 12 But you, O Lord, are eternal; and your name will never come to an end.
  • Ps 39:13 : 13 Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.
  • Ps 90:1-2 : 1 <A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.> Lord, you have been our resting-place in all generations. 2 Before the mountains were made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God.
  • Job 36:26 : 26 Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.
  • Ps 9:7 : 7 But the Lord is King for ever: he has made ready his high seat for judging.
  • Isa 38:10-22 : 10 I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me. 11 I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world. 12 My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain. 13 I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones. 14 I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause. 15 What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest. 16 O Lord, for this cause I am waiting for you, give rest to my spirit: make me well again, and let me come back to life. 17 See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory. 18 For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy. 19 The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children. 20 O Lord, quickly be my saviour; so we will make my songs to corded instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the Lord. 21 And Isaiah said, Let them take a cake of figs, and put it on the diseased place, and he will get well. 22 And Hezekiah said, What is the sign that I will go up to the house of the Lord?
  • Rev 1:4 : 4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from him who is and was and is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his high seat;
  • Rev 1:8 : 8 I am the First and the Last, says the Lord God who is and was and is to come, the Ruler of all.