Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
1 Samuel 12:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Now, behold, the king walks before you; and I am old and gray-headed; and behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my youth to this day. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And now, behold, the king walks before you. And I am old and gray, and behold, my sons are with you. And I have walked before you from my childhood to this day. American Standard Version (1901) And now, behold, the king walketh before you; and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my youth unto this day. Common English Bible The king will lead you now. I am old and gray, though my sons are still with you, and I’ve been your leader since I was young until now. Catholic Public Domain Version And now the king advances before you. But I am old and have gray hair. Moreover, my sons are with you. And so, having conversed before you from my youth, even until this day, behold, I am here. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And now the king goeth before you. But I am old and greyheaded: and my sons are with you. Having then conversed with you from my youth unto this day, behold here I am. |
Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD not be as sheep which have no shepherd.
For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
It happened after many days, when the LORD had given rest to Yisra'el from all their enemies round about, and Yehoshua was old and well stricken in years;
that Yehoshua called for all Yisra'el, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, I am old and well stricken in years:
knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Yeshua the Messiah made clear to me.
Now `Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Yisra'el, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the tent of meeting.
Why kick you at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in [my] habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Yisra'el my people?
The LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Shemu'el, Shemu'el. Then Shemu'el said, Speak; for your servant hears.
For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons did bring a curse on themselves, and he didn't restrain them.
Then `Eli called Shemu'el, and said, Shemu'el, my son. He said, Here am I.
It happened, when Shemu'el was old, that he made his sons judges over Yisra'el.
that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
and they said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons don't walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.