Psalms 102:11
My days [are] stretched out as a shadow, || And I am withered as the herb.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
In Context
10From Your indignation and Your wrath, || For You have lifted me up, || And cast me down.
12And You, O YHWH, abide for all time, || And Your memorial from generation to generation.
Cross References
Job 14:2As a flower he has gone forth, and is cut off, || And he flees as a shadow and does not stand.
Psalms 39:5Behold, You have made my days handbreadths, || And my age [is] as nothing before You, || Only, every man set up [is] all vanity. Selah.
Psalms 109:23I have gone as a shadow when it is stretched out, || I have been driven away as a locust.
Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what [is] good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he makes them as a shadow? For who declares to man what is after him under the sun?
Lamentations 3:1[ALEPH-BET] I [am] the man [who] has seen affliction || By the rod of His wrath.
James 4:14who does not know the thing of tomorrow; for what is your life? For it is a vapor that is appearing for a little [while], and then is vanishing;
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 →