Psalms 102:11
My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
In Context
10because of thine indignation and thy wrath. For thou have taken me up, and cast me away.
12But thou, O LORD, will abide forever, and thy memorial to all generations.
Cross References
Job 14:2He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue.
Psalms 39:5Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalms 109:23I am gone like the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Lamentations 3:1I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
James 4:14men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--
Matthew Henry on Psalms 102:2-12
Complaints in Affliction. 1 Hear my prayer, O Lord , and let my cry come unto thee. 2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily. 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth. 4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. 7 I… Read the whole commentary →