Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails.

And now when I am old and grayheaded, O God, do not leave me, until I have declared Your strength to this generation, and Your power to everyone who is to come.

And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, answered and said: I am young in years, and you are very old; therefore I have shrunk back, and out of respect for you, have not told my opinion.

I said, Age should speak, and multitude of years should declare wisdom.

Also some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us and brought with them Mnason, a certain Cypriot, one of the original disciples, with whom we were to lodge.

Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to order you to do what is fitting,

yet for love's sake I rather appeal to you; being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ;

For Jehovah loves justice and does not forsake His Godly ones; they are preserved forever; but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

For Jehovah will not cast off His people, nor will He forsake His inheritance.

No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not abandon you nor forsake you.

For Jehovah will not abandon His people, for His great name's sake, because Jehovah has undertaken to make you a people for Himself.

Their children shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ravished.

persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him.

For whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and whips every son whom He receives.

Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, By no means will I ever leave you nor ever forsake you.

His soul shall dwell in good things; and his seed shall inherit the earth.

Let them wander up and down for food, and pass the night unsatisfied.

Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg; let them seek their bread also from the waste.

His seed shall be mighty on the earth; the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you in their generations, for a perpetual covenant, to be God unto you and unto your seed after you.

He wanders about for bread, saying, where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is treasured up for the just.

He fills the hungry with good things, and the rich He sends away empty.

as He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed forever.