Getting Old

and even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; — read the full passage →

The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair.

Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name! — read the full passage →

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. — read the full passage →

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm. — read the full passage →