Psalms 102:11
My dayes are like a shadowe that fadeth, and I am withered like grasse.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
In Context
10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast heaued me vp, and cast me downe.
12But thou, O Lord, doest remaine for euer, and thy remembrance from generation to generation.
Cross References
Job 14:2He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not.
Psalms 39:5Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.
Psalms 109:23I depart like the shadowe that declineth, and am shaken off as the grashopper.
Lamentations 3:1I am the man, that hath seene affliction in the rod of his indignation.
James 4:14(And yet ye cannot tell what shalbe to morowe. For what is your life? It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and afterward vanisheth 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 →