Psalms 71:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Cast me not off in the time of old age; Forsake me not when my strength faileth.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַֽל־תַּ֭שְׁלִיכֵנִי לְעֵ֣ת זִקְנָ֑ה כִּכְל֥וֹת כֹּ֝חִ֗י אֽ͏ַל־תַּעַזְבֵֽנִי׃

Transliteration

Not-tašlîkēnî to ʿēt ziqnāh at kiklôt kōḥî not-taʿazbēnî

Grammar Details

*tašlîkēnî*: hiphil imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - 'cast me away'
*ʿēt*: noun, feminine singular construct - 'time of'
*ziqnāh*: noun, feminine singular - 'old age'
*kiklôt*: qal infinitive construct - 'when fails'
*kōḥî*: noun with 1st person singular suffix - 'my strength'
*taʿazbēnî*: qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - 'forsake me'

Word Meanings

*tašlîkēnî*: cast me away/throw me/discard me
*ʿēt*: time/period/season
*ziqnāh*: old age/advanced years
*kiklôt*: when fails/when is consumed/when is spent
*kōḥî*: my strength/my power/my ability
*taʿazbēnî*: forsake me/abandon me/leave me

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Ps 71:18 : 18 Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto [the next] generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.
Isa 46:4 : 4 and even to old age I am he, and even to hoar hairs will I carry [you]; I have made, and I will bear; yea, I will carry, and will deliver.
Ps 90:10 : 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
Ps 92:13-15 : 13 They are planted in the house of Jehovah; They shall flourish in the courts of our God. 14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; They shall be full of sap and green: 15 To show that Jehovah is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Eccl 12:1-7 : 1 Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; 2 before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain; 3 in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows shall be darkened, 4 and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low; 5 yea, they shall be afraid of [that which is] high, and terrors [shall be] in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets: 6 before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, 7 and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.
2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For which cause I suffer also 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 unto him against that day.
2 Tim 4:18 : 18 {G2532} The Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will save me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom [be] the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Ps 73:26 : 26 My flesh and my heart faileth; [But] God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
2 Sam 19:35 : 35 I am this day fourscore years old: can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
2 Sam 21:15-17 : 15 And the Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. And David waxed faint; 16 and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred [shekels] of brass in weight, he being girded with a new [sword], thought to have slain David. 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succored him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the lamp of Israel.

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