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Psalm 71

Psa. 71:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Cast me not off
shalak (Hebrew #7993)
to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: adventure, cast (away, down, forth, off, out), hurl, pluck, throw.
Pronounce: shaw-lak
Origin: a primitive root
in the time
`eth (Hebrew #6256)
time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.
KJV usage: + after, (al-)ways, X certain, + continually, + evening, long, (due) season, so (long) as, (even-, evening-, noon-)tide, ((meal-)), what) time, when.
Pronounce: ayth
Origin: from 5703
of old age
ziqnah (Hebrew #2209)
old age
KJV usage: old (age).
Pronounce: zik-naw'
Origin: feminine of 2205
; forsake
`azab (Hebrew #5800)
to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.
KJV usage: commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, X surely.
Pronounce: aw-zab'
Origin: a primitive root
me not when my strength
koach (Hebrew #3581)
from an unused root meaning to be firm; vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce); also (from its hardiness) a large lizard
KJV usage: ability, able, chameleon, force, fruits, might, power(-ful), strength, substance, wealth.
Pronounce: ko'-akh
Origin: or (Dan. 11:6) kowach {ko'-akh}
faileth
kalah (Hebrew #3615)
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
KJV usage: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when ... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, X fully, X have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.
Pronounce: kaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Psa. 71:18• 18Yea also unto old age and grey hairs,{HR}O God, forsake me not,{HR}Until I declare, thine arm to a generation,{HR}Thy might to every one that is to come. (Psa. 71:18)
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Psa. 92:13‑15• 13Planted in Jehovah's house,{HR}In the courts of our God, they shall flourish.
 14Still shall they bear fruit in old age;{HR}Fat and green shall they be;
 15To show that Jehovah is upright:{HR}[He is] my rock, and no unrighteousness [is] in him. (Psa. 92:13‑15)
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Isa. 46:4• 4even to old age I [am] He, and to hoary hairs will I carry [you]: I have made and I will bear; and I will carry and will deliver. (Isa. 46:4)
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2 Tim. 1:12• 12For which cause also I suffer these things; yet I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed; and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have entrusted against that day. (2 Tim. 1:12)
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2 Tim. 4:18• 18The Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve for his heavenly kingdom; to whom [be] the glory unto the ages of the ages. Amen. (2 Tim. 4:18)
old age.This determines the period when this Psalm was composed; for it was in David's old age that the rebellion of Absalom took place.when.
Psa. 73:26• 26My flesh and my heart faileth;{HR}Rock of my heart and my portion [is] God forever. (Psa. 73:26)
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Psa. 90:10• 10The days of our years! in them [are] seventy years,{HR}And if by strength eighty years,{HR}Even their pride [is] trouble and mischief;{HR}For it is soon gone, and we fly away. (Psa. 90:10)
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2 Sam. 19:35• 35I am this day eighty years old: can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat and what I drink? can I hear anymore the voice of singing men and singing women? and why should thy servant be yet a burden to my lord the king? (2 Sam. 19:35)
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2 Sam. 21:15‑17• 15And the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought with the Philistines. And David was exhausted.
 16And Ishbibenob, who was of the children of Raphah—the weight of his lance was three hundred shekels of bronze, and he was girded with new armour —thought to smite David.
 17And Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the lamp of Israel. (2 Sam. 21:15‑17)
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Eccl. 12:1‑7• 1Remember also thy Creator(s) in the days of thy youth{HR}Before the evil days come,{HR}And the years draw nigh of which thou shalt say,{HR}I have no pleasure in them;
 2Before the sun, and the light, and the moon,{HR}And the stars, be darkened,{HR}And the clouds return after the rain:
 3In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble,{HR}And the strong men shall bow themselves,{HR}And the grinders cease because they are few,{HR}And those that look out of the windows be darkened,
 4And the doors shall be shut in the street;{HR}When the sound of the grinding is low,{HR}And one shall rise up at the voice of a bird,{HR}And all the daughters of song shall be brought low;
 5Yea, they shall be afraid of [that which is] high,{HR}And terrors [shall be] in the way;{HR}And the almond tree shall blossom,{HR}And the grasshopper shall be a burden,{HR}And desire shall fail;{HR}Because man goeth to his long home,{HR}And the mourners go about the streets:
 6Before the silver cord be loosed,{HR}Or the golden bowl be broken,{HR}Or the pitcher be broken at the fountain,{HR}Or the wheel broken at the cistern;
 7And the dust return to the earth as it was,{HR}And the spirit return unto God who gave it. (Eccl. 12:1‑7)
• The remnant feeling the wear of the ordeal compare themselves to an old man who has come to the end of his strength. Consequently they cast themselves upon the Lord’s strength (vs. 9-18). (“Book 2.” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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Cast me not off in the time of old age;{HR}When my strength faileth, forsake me not.