Psalms 102:11

American Standard Version (1901)

My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.

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  • Job 14:2 : 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
  • Ps 109:23 : 23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knoweth what is good for man in [his] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. 7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass. 8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever.
  • Jas 1:10 : 10 and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {{Selah [ 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
  • Ps 102:3-4 : 3 For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand. 4 My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.

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  • Ps 102:3-5
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    3For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.

    4My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.

    5By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.

  • 23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

  • Ps 102:23-24
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    23He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days.

    24I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: Thy years are throughout all generations.

  • 15As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

  • 4Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

  • Ps 102:9-10
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    9For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,

    10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away.

  • Ps 90:5-6
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    5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

    6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

  • 7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

  • Isa 38:12-13
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    12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

    13I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

  • 10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.

  • 2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.

  • Isa 40:7-8
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    7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass.

    8The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever.

  • 6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.

  • 1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.

  • Ps 22:14-15
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    14I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.

    15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

  • 11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.

  • 2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

  • 6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up;

  • 12Whilst it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, It withereth before any [other] herb.

  • 10I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

    4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.

  • 11For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass: and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.

  • 10My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

  • 18And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.

  • 10He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.

  • Job 30:15-16
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    15Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.

    16And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

  • Ps 39:4-5
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    4Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.

    5Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {{Selah [

  • 12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

  • 19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • 9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

  • 24For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:

  • 16My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

  • 25Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good,

  • 27Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as a field [of grain] before it is grown up.

  • 11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

  • 6I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

  • 4I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,

  • 13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • 19My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch;