Psalms 102:26
The earth and the heavens/sky will disappear, but you will remain. They will wear out like clothes wear out. You will get rid of them like people get rid of old clothes, and they will no longer exist,
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
27but you are not like the things that you created, because you are always the same; you never die.
Cross References
2 Kings 19:15Then Hezekiah prayed, “Yahweh, the God whom to whom we Israelis belong, you are seated on your throne above the statues of creatures with wings, above the Sacred Chest. Only you are truly God. You rule all the kingdoms on this earth. You are the one who created everything on the earth and in the sky.
Psalms 102:12But Yahweh, you are our king who rules [MTY] forever; people who are not yet born will remember you.
Isaiah 51:6Look up at the sky, and look at the earth, and see what they are like now, because some day the sky will disappear like [SIM] smoke, and the earth will wear out like [SIM] old clothes wear out, and people on the earth will die like gnats/flies. But I will rescue/save you, and you will remain free forever, and I will rule you righteously/fairly forever.
Isaiah 66:22I also promise that just like the new heaven and the new earth will last forever, you will always have descendants, and you [MTY] will always be honored.
Luke 21:33You can be certain that these things that I have told you about will happen. That they will happen is more certain than that the earth and sky will continue to exist.”
2 Peter 3:7Furthermore, God, commanded that the heavens and the earth that exist now remain until the time when he will judge ◄ungodly people/people whose lives are not pleasing to him►. And at that time he will destroy the heavens and the earth by burning them.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 102:24-28
Hoping in God's Compassion. 23 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days. 24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations. 25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. 26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: 27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. 28 The… Read the whole commentary →