Psalms 102:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

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  • Job 14:2 : 2 He comes forth like a flower and is cut down; he flees also as a shadow and does not continue.
  • Ps 109:23 : 23 I am gone like a shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down like the locust.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 The voice said, Cry out. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field: 7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people are grass. 8 The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.
  • Jas 1:10 : 10 But the rich in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 Because "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are troubled in vain: he heaps up riches, and does not know who shall gather them.
  • Ps 102:3-4 : 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned like a hearth. 4 My heart is stricken and withered like grass, so I forget to eat my bread.

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  • Ps 102:3-5
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    3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned like a hearth.

    4My heart is stricken and withered like grass, so I forget to eat my bread.

    5Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones cling to my skin.

  • Ps 109:23
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    23I am gone like a shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down like 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, do not take me away in the midst of my days; your years are throughout all generations."

  • Ps 103:15
    78%

    15As for man, his days are like grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

  • Ps 144:4
    78%

    4Man is like vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.

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

    10Because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have lifted me up and cast me down.

  • Ps 90:5-6
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    5You carry them away like a flood; they are like a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

    6In the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers.

  • Job 17:7
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    7My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are like a shadow.

  • Isa 38:12-13
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    12My lifespan is gone, taken from me like a shepherd's tent: I have cut off my life like a weaver; He cuts me off with pining sickness: from day to night You make an end of me.

    13I counted till morning, that as a lion, so will He break all my bones: from day to night You make an end of me.

  • Ps 31:10
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    10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • Ps 37:2
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    2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

  • Isa 40:7-8
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    7The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people are grass.

    8The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.

  • Job 7:6
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    6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

  • Job 17:1
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    1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are 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 clings to my jaws; You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • Job 17:11
    75%

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

  • Job 14:2
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    2He comes forth like a flower and is cut down; he flees also as a shadow and does not continue.

  • Ps 129:6
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    6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up:

  • Job 8:12
    74%

    12While it is still green and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.

  • Isa 38:10
    74%

    10I said in the prime of my days, I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

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

  • Jas 1:11
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    11For the sun rises with a burning heat, and it withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes: so also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

  • Ps 38:10
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    10My heart pants, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.

  • Lam 3:18
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    18And I said, My strength and my hope perished from the LORD.

  • Job 19:10
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    10He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone; and my hope He has removed like a tree.

  • Job 30:15-16
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    15Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind, and my welfare passes away like a cloud.

    16And now my soul is poured out within me; the days of affliction have seized me.

  • Ps 39:4-5
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    4LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; so I may know how frail I am.

    5Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

  • Ps 31:12
    73%

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

  • Job 30:19
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    19He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

  • Ps 90:9
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    9For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
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    24Because "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,

  • Job 16:16
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    16My face is flushed with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

  • Job 9:25
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    25Now my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.

  • Isa 37:27
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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 grain blighted before it is grown up.

  • Lam 3:11
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    11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • Ps 38:6
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    6I am troubled; I am greatly bowed down; I go mourning all the day long.

  • Ps 88:4
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    4I am counted with those who go down into the pit; I am as a man who has no strength:

  • Lam 1:13
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    13From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Job 29:19
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    19My root spread out to the waters, and the dew lay all night on my branch.