Psalms 71:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

Psalms 71:9 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 46:4
And 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.
2 Timothy 1:12
For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Psalms 71:18
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.
Psalms 90:10
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Psalms 92:13-15
Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Age, Old Aged Infirmity Longevity Old Age Veneration

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-13)

Two things in general David here prays for—that he might not be confounded and that his enemies and persecutors might be confounded. I. He prays that he might never be made ashamed of his dependence upon God nor disappointed in his believing expectations from him. With this petition every true believer may come boldly to the throne of grace; for God will never disappoint the hope that is of his ow…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

6-9. His history from early infancy illustrated God’s care, and his wonderful deliverances were at once occasions of praise and ground of confidence for the future. my praise ... of thee--literally, “in” or “by Thee” (Psa 22:25).