Psalms 70:9
Cast me not off in the time of old age: when my strength shall fail, do not thou forsake me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ne projicias me in tempore senectutis ; cum defecerit virtus mea, ne derelinquas me.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μὴ ἀπορίψῃς με εἰς καιρὸν γήρους, ἐν τῷ ἐκλιπεῖν τὴν ἰσχύν μου μὴ ἐνκαταλίπῃς με.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 71:9
- אַֽל תַּ֭שְׁלִיכֵנִי לְעֵ֣ת זִקְנָ֑ה כִּכְל֥וֹת כֹּ֝חִ֗י אַֽל תַּעַזְבֵֽנִי
Haydock's commentary
Old age. Absalom rebelled when his father was grown old. (Calmet)
Against the dangers of our last conflict, (Haydock) Christ has instituted Extreme Unction. (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXI
10. My hope from my youth, “cast me not away in time of old age” ( ver. 9 ). What is this time of old age? “When my strength shall fail, forsake Thou not me.” Here God maketh this answer to thee, yea indeed let thy strength fail, in order that in thee mine may abide: in order that thou mayest say with the Apostle, “When I am made weak, then I am mighty.” Fear not, that thou be cast away in that weakness, in that old age. But why? Was not thy Lord made weak on the Cross? Did not most mighty men and fat bulls before Him, as though a man of no strength, made captive and oppressed, shake the head and say, “If Son of God He is, let Him come down from the Cross”? Has he deserted because He was made weak, who preferred not to come down from the Cross, lest He should seem not to have displayed power, but to have yielded to them reviling? What did He hanging teach thee, that would not come down, …