4And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)We are here told, I. That the false gods will certainly fail their worshippers when they have most need of them, Isa. 46:1 , 2 . Bel and Nebo were two celebrated idols of Babylon. Some make Bel to be a contraction of Baal; others rather think not, but that it was Belus, one of their first kings, who after his death was deified. As Bel was a deified prince, so (some think) Nebo was a deified prophe…
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