Age

let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

Days of our years, in them <FI>are<Fi> seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet <FI>is<Fi> their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.

With the very aged <FI>is<Fi> wisdom, And <FI>with<Fi> length of days understanding.

Even to old age I <FI>am<Fi> He, and to grey hairs I carry, I made, and I bear, yea, I carry and deliver.

And Jehovah saith, `My Spirit doth not strive in man--to the age; in their erring they <FI>are<Fi> flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.

The righteous as a palm-tree flourisheth, As a cedar in Lebanon he groweth. — read the full passage →

The beauty of young men is their strength, And the honour of old men is grey hairs.

And thou--be speaking what doth become the sound teaching; — read the full passage →

My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep, — read the full passage →

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;

To number our days aright let <FI>us<Fi> know, And we bring the heart to wisdom. — read the full passage →

Cast me not off at the time of old age, According to the consumption of my power forsake me not.

and he hath been to thee for a restorer of life, and for a nourisher of thine old age, for thy daughter-in-law who hath loved thee--who is better to thee than seven sons--hath borne him.'

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe; — read the full passage →

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me: — read the full passage →

There is not thence any more a suckling of days, And an aged man who doth not complete his days, For the youth a hundred years old dieth, And the sinner, a hundred years old, is lightly esteemed.

And I have recompensed to you the years That consume did the locust, the cankerworm, And the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, My great force that I did send against you. — read the full passage →

Mortal man! as grass <FI>are<Fi> his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth; — read the full passage →

And these <FI>are<Fi> the days of the years of the life of Abraham, which he lived, a hundred and seventy and five years; — read the full passage →

For Thou--Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly. — read the full passage →

Surely a spirit is in man, And the breath of the Mighty One Doth cause them to understand.

And he saith to them, `Go, eat fat things, and drink sweet things, and sent portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for to-day <FI>is<Fi> holy to our Lord, and be not grieved, for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.'

`And, now, lo, Jehovah hath kept me alive, as He hath spoken, these forty and five years, since Jehovah spake this word unto Moses, when Israel went in the wilderness; and now, lo, I <FI>am<Fi> to-day a son of five and eighty years; — read the full passage →

My strength and song is JAH, And He is become my salvation: This <FI>is<Fi> my God, and I glorify Him; God of my father, and I exalt Him. — read the full passage →

I have known both to be abased, and I have known to abound; in everything and in all things I have been initiated, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want. — read the full passage →

<FI> Mem.<Fi> O how I have loved Thy law! All the day it <FI>is<Fi> my meditation. — read the full passage →

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love; — read the full passage →

Who is forgiving all thine iniquities, Who is healing all thy diseases, — read the full passage →

For which cause I remind thee to stir up the gift of God that is in thee through the putting on of my hands, — read the full passage →

For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature,

`Our appointed bread give us to-day.

`But thou, when thou mayest pray, go into thy chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who <FI>is<Fi> in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret, shall reward thee manifestly.

For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.

`Jehovah bless thee and keep thee; — read the full passage →