Psalms 102:11
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 [this] 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 said, Cry. And he 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 spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass. 8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
- Jas 1:10 : 10 But 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. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, 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 of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
- Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: 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 are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. 4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
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- Ps 102:3-53 verses82%
3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
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23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
- Ps 102:23-242 verses78%
23¶ He 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.
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15[As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
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4Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.
- Ps 102:9-102 verses78%
9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
- Ps 90:5-62 verses77%
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.
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7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow.
- Isa 38:12-132 verses77%
12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13I reckoned till morning, [that], as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.
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10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
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2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
- Isa 40:7-82 verses76%
7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass.
8The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
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6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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1¶ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.
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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 in the midst of my bowels.
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.
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11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.
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2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
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6Let them be as the grass [upon] the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
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12Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.
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10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
- Ps 143:3-42 verses74%
3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
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11For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it 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 ways.
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10My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
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18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
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10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
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15¶ Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
- Ps 39:4-52 verses73%
4LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am].
5Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.
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12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
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19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told].
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24¶ For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
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16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids [is] the shadow of death;
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25¶ Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
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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 corn] blasted before it be grown up.
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11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
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6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
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4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength:
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13From above 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.
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19My root [was] spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.