Psalms 102:23 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 102:23

He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.

KJV

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ASV

He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days.

WEB

He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days.

YLT

He hath humbled in the way my power, He hath shortened my days.

DBT

He weakened my strength in the way, he shortened my days.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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12 verses on the floor

Ecclesiastes 12:3
In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
Psalms 89:45
The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
Job 6:11
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
2 Timothy 3:1–17
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
Revelation 11:2–19
But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

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And then what becomes of the promise that Shiloh should arise out of Judah, the star out of Jacob, and the Messiah out of the family of David? If these fail, the promise fails. This the psalmist speaks of as in his own person, and it is very applicable to two of the common afflictions of this time:-- 1.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

God's eternal existence is a pledge of faithfulness to His promises. in the way--of providence. weakened--literally, "afflicted," and made fearful of a premature end, a figure of the apprehensions of the Church, lest God might not perform His promise, drawn from those of a person in view of the dangers of early death (compare Ps 89:47).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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