Psalm 102:24 {101:25}
Good News Translation
O God, do not take me away now before I grow old. O LORD, you live forever;

New Revised Standard Version
“O my God,” I say, “do not take me away at the midpoint of my life, you whose years endure throughout all generations.”

Contemporary English Version
You will live forever! Years mean nothing to you. Don't cut my life in half!

New American Bible
I plead, O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days. Your years last through all generations.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation.

I said

Psalm 39:13 O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.

Isaiah 38:10 I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years.

thy years

Psalm 102:12 But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all generations.

Psalm 9:7 But the Lord remaineth for ever. He hath prepared his throne in judgment:

Psalm 90:1,2 A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation. . . .

Habakkuk 1:12 Wast thou not from the beginning, O Lord my God, my holy one, and we shall not die? Lord, thou hast appointed him for judgment: and made him strong for correction.

Revelation 1:4,8 John to the seven churches which are in Asia. Grace be unto you and peace, from him that is and that was and that is to come: and from the seven spirits which are before his throne: . . .

Context
The Prayer of the Afflicted
23He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the fewness of my days. 24Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation.25In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands.…
Cross References
Job 36:26
Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge: the number of his years is inestimable.

Psalm 39:13
O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.

Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.

Psalm 102:12
But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all generations.

Isaiah 38:10
I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years.

Daniel 4:34
Therefore I, Nabuchodonosor, do now praise, and magnify, and glorify the King of heaven: because all his works are true, and his ways judgments, and them that walk in pride he is able to abase.

Habakkuk 1:12
Wast thou not from the beginning, O Lord my God, my holy one, and we shall not die? Lord, thou hast appointed him for judgment: and made him strong for correction.

Psalm 102:23
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