Psalms 102:11
My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
In Context
10because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.
12But You, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; Your renown endures to all generations.
Cross References
Job 14:2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
Psalms 109:23I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
Lamentations 3:1I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.
James 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
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 →