Psalms 102:11
My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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 your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away.
12But you, LORD, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations.
Cross References
Job 14:2He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
Psalms 39:5Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.
Psalms 109:23I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
Lamentations 3:1I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
James 4:14Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
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 →