Psalms 102:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:2 : 2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
  • Ps 109:23 : 23 I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?
  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field. 7 The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass. 8 The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.
  • Jas 1:10 : 10 But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.) 6 Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.
  • Ps 102:3-4 : 3 My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire. 4 My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.

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    3My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.

    4My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.

    5Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

  • Ps 109:23
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    23I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.

  • Ps 102:23-24
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    23He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.

    24I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generations:

  • Ps 103:15
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    15As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

  • Ps 144:4
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    4Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

  • Ps 102:9-10
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    9I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:

    10Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.

  • Ps 90:5-6
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    6In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.

  • Job 17:7
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    7My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

  • Isa 38:12-13
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    12My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

    13I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.

  • Ps 31:10
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    10My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • Ps 37:2
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    2For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

  • Isa 40:7-8
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    7The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.

    8The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.

  • Job 7:6
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    6My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

  • Job 17:1
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    1My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

  • Ps 22:14-15
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    14I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

    15My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

  • Job 17:11
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    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

  • Job 14:2
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    2He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

  • Ps 129:6
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    6Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.

  • Job 8:12
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    12When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

  • Isa 38:10
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    10I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

    4Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • Jas 1:11
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    11For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

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    10My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.

  • Lam 3:18
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    18And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.

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    10I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

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    15Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.

    16But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

  • Ps 39:4-5
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    4Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.

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  • Ps 31:12
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    12I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

  • Job 30:19
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    19Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • Ps 90:9
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    9For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
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    24For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:

  • Job 16:16
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    16My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;

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    25My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.

  • Isa 37:27
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    27This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.

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    11By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • Ps 38:6
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    6I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

  • Ps 88:4
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    4I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

  • Lam 1:13
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    13From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

  • Job 29:19
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    19My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,