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The Retirement Years
Yes, remember your creator now while you are young, before the
silver cord of life snaps, and the golden bowl is broken, and the pitcher
is broken at the fountain, and the wheel is broken at the cistern;
And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to
God who gave it....
Here is my final conclusion: fear God and obey his commandments,
for this is the entire duty of man.
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For God will judge us for everything we do, including every hidden
thing, good or bad.—
Ecclesiastes 12:1-7, 13, 14
, The Living Bible.
In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confi-
dence shall be your strength.—
Isaiah 30:15
.
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall
utterly fall: but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be
weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.—
Isaiah 40:30, 31
.
Even to your old age I will be the same, when you are gray-haired,
still I will sustain you; I have borne the burden, I will carry it, yes, I
will carry you and save you.—
Isaiah 46:4
, Moffatt.
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit
upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your
old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.—
Joel
2:28
.
When I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.—
Micah
7:8
.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; there shall yet old men and old women
dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his
hand for very age.
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in
the streets thereof.—
Zechariah 8:4, 5
.
At evening time it shall be light.—
Zechariah 14:7
.
There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain
priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia; and his wife was of the
daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the com-
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mandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they
both were now well stricken in years....