Psalms 103:16
When a wind but passeth over it, it is gone, and its place will recognize it no more.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
In Context
15As for man, like the grass are his days: as the blossom of the field, so doth he bloom.
Cross References
Genesis 5:24And Enoch walked with God, and he was no more; for God had taken him.
Job 7:8The eye of him that seeth me now will not behold me again: [thou fixest] thy eyes upon me, and I am no more.
Job 8:18But when men destroy him from his place, then will it deny him, saying, I have never seen thee.
Job 20:9If an eye have surveyed him, it will not do so again, and it will not behold him any more in his place.
Isaiah 40:6A voice saith, Proclaim; and he saith, What shall I proclaim? all flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is as the flower of the field:
Matthew Henry on Psalms 103:7-19
Goodness and Compassion of God. 6 The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. 7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel. 8 The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. 9 He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever. 10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. 11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. 12 As… Read the whole commentary →