Psalms 71:9

Webster's Bible (1833)

Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my strength fails.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 71:18 : 18 Yes, 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.
  • Isa 46:4 : 4 and even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and will deliver.
  • Ps 90:10 : 10 The 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.
  • Ps 92:13-15 : 13 They are planted in Yahweh's house. They will flourish in our God's courts. 14 They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green, 15 To show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, And there is no unrighteousness in him.
  • Eccl 12:1-7 : 1 Remember 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;" 2 Before the sun, the light, 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 who look out of the windows are 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 Yes, they shall be afraid of heights, And terrors will be in the way; And the almond tree shall blossom, And the grasshopper shall be a burden, And desire shall fail; Because man goes to his everlasting home, And the mourners go about the streets: 6 Before the silver cord is severed, Or the golden bowl is broken, Or the pitcher is broken at the spring, Or the wheel broken at the cistern, 7 And the dust returns to the earth as it was, And the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For this 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 to him against that day.
  • 2 Tim 4:18 : 18 And 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.
  • Ps 73:26 : 26 My flesh and my heart fails, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
  • 2 Sam 19:35 : 35 I am this day eighty years old: can I discern between good and bad? can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?
  • 2 Sam 21:15-17 : 15 The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew 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 helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you don't quench the lamp of Israel.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 71:17-18
    2 verses
    85%

    17 God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

    18 Yes, 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 27:9-10
    2 verses
    80%

    9 Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don't abandon me, Neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

    10 When my father and my mother forsake me, Then Yahweh will take me up.

  • 21 Don't forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don't be far from me.

  • Ps 71:10-12
    3 verses
    78%

    10 For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

    11 Saying, "God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him."

    12 God, don't be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.

  • 11 Don't throw me from your presence, And don't take your holy Spirit from me.

  • Ps 102:23-24
    2 verses
    76%

    23 He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

    24 I said, "My God, don't take me away in the midst of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

  • 13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go away, and be no more."

  • 19 But don't be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me.

  • 8 I will observe your statutes. Don't utterly forsake me.

  • 2 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • 2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, Men in whom ripe age has perished?

  • Ps 31:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

    10 For my life is spent with sorrow, My years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

  • 8 For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don't leave my soul destitute.

  • 26 My flesh and my heart fails, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

  • 10 My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

  • 7 Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, So that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.

  • 25 I have been young, and now am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his children begging for bread.

  • 11 Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

  • 14 Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

  • 10 Then I thought, "I will appeal to this: The years of the right hand of the Most High."

  • 7 "Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?

  • 20 Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?

  • 4 Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, For you are my stronghold.

  • 8 My mouth shall be filled with your praise, With your honor all the day.

  • 10 I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

  • 22 As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

  • 1 > How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

  • 11 Don't be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is none to help.

  • 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • 21 Withdraw your hand far from me; And don't let your terror make me afraid.

  • 11 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

  • 14 For Yahweh won't reject his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance.

  • 9 I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

  • 15 My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

  • 12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night will you make an end of me.

  • 49 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, Which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

  • 13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, That you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, That you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • 1 > Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge.

  • 17 Don't be a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil.

  • 31 For the Lord will not cast off forever.

  • 17 You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

  • 5 For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; My confidence from my youth.

  • 11 Don't let the foot of pride come against me. Don't let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

  • 13 Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?