Psalm 102:23
New International Version
In the course of my life he broke my strength; he cut short my days.

New Living Translation
He broke my strength in midlife, cutting short my days.

English Standard Version
He has broken my strength in midcourse; he has shortened my days.

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

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

New King James Version
He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days.

New American Standard Bible
He has broken my strength in the way; He has shortened my days.

NASB 1995
He has weakened my strength in the way; He has shortened my days.

NASB 1977
He has weakened my strength in the way; He has shortened my days.

Legacy Standard Bible
He has afflicted my strength in the way; He has shortened my days.

Amplified Bible
He has exhausted my strength [humbling me with sorrow] in the way; He has shortened my days.

Christian Standard Bible
He has broken my strength in midcourse; he has shortened my days.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He has broken my strength in midcourse; He has shortened my days.

American Standard Version
He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
They humbled my power in the Earth and in the shortage of my days

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He answered him in the way of his strength: tell me the fewness of my days.

Contemporary English Version
I should still be strong, but you, LORD, have made an old person of me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the fewness of my days.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He has weakened my strength along the way. He has reduced [the number of] my days.

Good News Translation
The LORD has made me weak while I am still young; he has shortened my life.

International Standard Version
He has weakened my strength along the way. He has cut short my days.

JPS Tanakh 1917
He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days.

Literal Standard Version
He has humbled my power in the way, | He has shortened my days.

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

New American Bible
He has shattered my strength in mid-course, has cut short my days.

NET Bible
He has taken away my strength in the middle of life; he has cut short my days.

New Revised Standard Version
He has broken my strength in midcourse; he has shortened my days.

New Heart English Bible
He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

Webster's Bible Translation
He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.

World English Bible
He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

Young's Literal Translation
He hath humbled in the way my power, He hath shortened my days.

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Context
The Prayer of the Afflicted
22when peoples and kingdoms assemble to serve the LORD. 23He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days. 24I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.…

Cross References
Psalm 39:5
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

Psalm 89:45
You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah


Treasury of Scripture

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

he weakened.

Psalm 89:38-47
But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed…

2 Thessalonians 2:3-12
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; …

1 Timothy 4:1-3
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; …

shortened

Job 21:21
For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

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Psalm 102
1. The prophet in his prayer makes a grievous complaint.
12. He takes comfort in the eternity, and mercy of God
18. The mercies of God are to be recorded
23. He sustains his weakness by the unchangeableness of God.














(23) In the way--i.e., in the course of life. Others render, "by reason of the way," but the meaning is the same. The clause is exactly parallel to "shortened my days."

Verses 23-28. - The third strophe begins with an acknowledgment of weakness - a sort of "renewed complaint" (Hengstenberg). But from this there is an ascent to a higher confidence than any displayed previously - a confidence that God, who is everlasting (vers. 24-27), will perpetually protect his people, and, whatever becomes of the existing generation, will establish their seed before him forever (ver. 28). Verse 23. - He weakened my strength in the way. The reading "my strength" (כחי) is greatly to be preferred to that of "his strength" (כחו), which cannot be made to yield a tolerable meaning. It is judiciously adopted by Professor Cheyne, who translates, "He has brought down my strength in the way," and explains "the way" as "the journey of life." So also Rosenmuller and Hengstenberg. He shortened my days; i.e. "made me grow old prematurely" (comp. ver.] 1).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He has broken
עִנָּ֖ה (‘in·nāh)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6031: To be bowed down or afflicted

my strength
כֹּחִ֗י (kō·ḥî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3581: A small reptile (of unknown species)

on the way;
בַדֶּ֥רֶךְ (ḇad·de·reḵ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

He has shortened
קִצַּ֥ר (qiṣ·ṣar)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7114: To dock off, curtail, to harvest

my days.
יָמָֽי׃ (yā·māy)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3117: A day


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