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Psalm 102

Psa. 102:24 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Iq said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, O my God
'el (Hebrew #410)
strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity)
KJV usage: God (god), X goodly, X great, idol, might(-y one), power, strong. Compare names in "-el."
Pronounce: ale
Origin: shortened from 352
, take me not away
`alah (Hebrew #5927)
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative (as follow)
KJV usage: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, + shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, X mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, + perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
Pronounce: aw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
in the midst
chetsiy (Hebrew #2677)
the half or middle
KJV usage: half, middle, mid(-night), midst, part, two parts.
Pronounce: khay-tsee'
Origin: from 2673
of my days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
: thy years
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
are throughout all
dowr (Hebrew #1755)
from 1752; properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling
KJV usage: age, X evermore, generation, (n-)ever, posterity.
Pronounce: dore
Origin: or (shortened) dor {dore}
generations
dowr (Hebrew #1755)
from 1752; properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling
KJV usage: age, X evermore, generation, (n-)ever, posterity.
Pronounce: dore
Origin: or (shortened) dor {dore}
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Psa. 39:13• 13Look away from me,{HR}And let me comfort myself before I go and am not. (Psa. 39:13)
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Isa. 38:10• 10I said, In the still noon of my days I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the residue of my years. (Isa. 38:10)

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I said.
Psa. 39:13• 13Look away from me,{HR}And let me comfort myself before I go and am not. (Psa. 39:13)
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Isa. 38:10‑22• 10I said, In the still noon of my days I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the residue of my years.
 11I said, I shall not see Jah, Jah in the land of the living. I shall not behold man longer with the inhabitants of the world.
 12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent. I have rolled off like a weaver my life; from the thrum he cutteth me off; from day to night wilt thou make an end of me.
 13I kept still till morning: as a lion he breaketh all my bones; from day to night he will make an end of me.
 14Like a swallow, a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed [with looking] upward. Jehovah, I am oppressed: undertake for me.
 15What shall I say? He hath both spoken to me, and himself hath done [it]: I shall go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.
 16Lord, by these things [men] live, and wholly in them [is] the life of my spirit; and thou recoverest me and makest me to live.
 17Behold, for peace I had bitterness on bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction, for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
 18For Sheol doth not praise thee, [nor] death celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth.
 19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I this day; the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
 20Jehovah—to save me! My song too we will sing to stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of Jehovah.
 21Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.
 22Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of Jehovah? (Isa. 38:10‑22)
thy years.
Psa. 102:12• 12But {i}thou,{/i} Jehovah, forever abidest,{HR}And thy memorial from generation to generation. (Psa. 102:12)
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Psa. 9:7• 7But Jehovah sitteth forever;{HR}He hath established his throne for judgment. (Psa. 9:7)
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Psa. 90:1‑2• 1A prayer of Moses the man of God.{HR}O Lord , {i}thou{/i} hast been our dwelling-place{HR}In generation and generation.
 2Before mountains were brought forth,{HR}And thou gavest birth to earth and world,{HR}Even from eternity to eternity {i}thou{/i} [art] God . (Psa. 90:1‑2)
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Hab. 1:12• 12Art thou not from everlasting, O Jehovah my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O Jehovah, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. (Hab. 1:12)
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Rev. 1:4,8• 4John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him that is and that was and that is to come; and from the seven Spirits who {i}are{/i} before his throne;
 8I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, that is and that was and that is to come, the Almighty. (Rev. 1:4,8)
• It shows how the divine, eternal nature of the Lord meets the difficulty of His having been cut off when Zion is to be restored hereafter. But this gives to the poignancy of His sorrows a depth and character of its own. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 102-106” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I said, My *God, take me not away in the midst of my days! … Thy years are from generation to generationf.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "in generation of generations." see Ps. 72.5.

W. Kelly Translation

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I said, O my Goda ,{HR}Take me not away in the midst ofb my days:{HR}In generation of generations [are] thy years.

WK Translation Notes

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El,
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Or, half.