Senior Citizens

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

wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day;

And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might.

Still they bring forth in old age, Fat and flourishing are they,

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.

With length of days I satisfy him, And I cause him to look on My salvation!

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

Young I have been, I have also become old, And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, And his seed seeking bread.

And lo, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name <FI>is<Fi> Simeon, and this man is righteous and devout, looking for the comforting of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him, — read the full passage →

A crown of beauty <FI>are<Fi> grey hairs, In the way of righteousness it is found.

A Psalm of Thanksgiving. Shout to Jehovah, all the earth. — read the full passage →

`At the presence of grey hairs thou dost rise up, and thou hast honoured the presence of an old man, and hast been afraid of thy God; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me.

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

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

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

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

Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

Sons' sons <FI>are<Fi> the crown of old men, And the glory of sons <FI>are<Fi> their fathers.

That this God <FI>is<Fi> our God--To the age and for ever, He--he doth lead us over death!

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren; — read the full passage →

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept, — read the full passage →

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

`Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men.

I said: Days do speak, And multitude of years teach wisdom.

To the Overseer. --By sons of Korah. `For the Virgins.' --A song. God <FI>is<Fi> to us a refuge and strength, A help in adversities found most surely. — read the full passage →

Say not thou, `What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wisely of this.

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

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.

And Moses <FI>is<Fi> a son of a hundred and twenty years when he dieth; his eye hath not become dim, nor hath his moisture fled.

Young men, and also maidens, Aged men, with youths, — read the full passage →

In Thee, O Jehovah, I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed to the age. — read the full passage →

aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance; — read the full passage →

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

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

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 →

because of the love I rather entreat, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ;

And Elihu hath waited earnestly beside Job with words, for they are older than he in days.

And king Rehoboam consulteth with the elders who have been standing in the presence of Solomon his father, in his being alive, saying, `How are ye counselling to answer this people?'

and if thou dost walk in My ways to keep My statutes, and My commands, as David thy father walked, then I have prolonged thy days.'

`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;

Remember days of old--Understand the years of many generations--Ask thy father, and he doth tell thee; Thine elders, and they say to thee:

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift,

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

And it hath come to pass afterwards, I do pour out My Spirit on all flesh, And prophesied have your sons and your daughters, Your old men do dream dreams, Your young men do see visions.

`Ye are the light of the world, a city set upon a mount is not able to be hid; — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

But those expecting Jehovah pass <FI>to<Fi> power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!

Those planted in the house of Jehovah, In the courts of our God do flourish. — read the full passage →

And Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite answereth and saith: --Young I <FI>am<Fi> in days, and ye <FI>are<Fi> age Therefore I have feared, And am afraid of shewing you my opinion.

Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.

and of doing good, and of fellowship, be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased.

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens.

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.

Only--goodness and kindness pursue me, All the days of my life, And my dwelling <FI>is<Fi> in the house of Jehovah, For a length of days!

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

Jesus answered, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;

and it hath been divinely told him by the Holy Spirit--not to see death before he may see the Christ of the Lord.

Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble, — read the full passage →

A Psalm of David. To Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> the earth and its fulness, The world and the inhabitants in it. — read the full passage →

and he dieth in a good old age, satisfied with days, riches, and honour, and reign doth Solomon his son in his stead.

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day; — read the full passage →

and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down--the Son of Man who is in the heaven.

and Abraham expireth, and dieth in a good old age, aged and satisfied, and is gathered unto his people.

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,

The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded;

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

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

Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come--a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.

A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, a habitation Thou--Thou hast been, To us--in generation and generation, — read the full passage →

Also--when I walk in a valley of death-shade, I fear no evil, for Thou <FI>art<Fi> with me, Thy rod and Thy staff--they comfort me.

In pastures of tender grass He causeth me to lie down, By quiet waters He doth lead me.

And Moses goeth and speaketh these words unto all Israel, — read the full passage →

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await--the Lord Jesus Christ--

Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

Fresher <FI>is<Fi> his flesh than a child's, He returneth to the days of his youth.

By faith Enoch was translated--not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to--that he had pleased God well,

and having gone through those parts, and having exhorted them with many words, he came to Greece;

in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you;

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

And he forsaketh the counsel of the elders which they counselled him, and consulteth with the lads who have grown up with him, who are standing before him;

to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,