Psalms 102:11
Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
In Context
10For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
12My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.
Cross References
Job 14:2Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.
Psalms 39:5I spoke with my tongue : O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days : that I may know what is wanting to me.
Psalms 109:23I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.
Lamentations 3:1Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.
James 4:14Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.
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 →