Psalms 103:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place remembers it no more.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 40:7 : 7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people are grass.
  • Job 20:9 : 9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place behold him any longer.
  • Gen 5:24 : 24 And Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
  • Job 7:6-9 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. 7 Oh, remember that my life is a breath; my eye shall see good no more. 8 The eye of him who has seen me shall see me no more; your eyes are upon me, and I am not. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more. 10 He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him anymore.
  • Job 8:18-19 : 18 If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.' 19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others shall grow.
  • Job 14:10 : 10 But man dies and wastes away; yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
  • Job 27:20-21 : 20 Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night. 21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs; and as a storm hurls him out of his place.

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    14For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.

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  • Jas 1:10-11
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    17But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children's children;

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