Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
My days declining as a shadow, and I shall be dried up as grass.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Holman Bible
and I wither away like grass.
International Standard Version
My life is like a declining shadow, and I am withering like a plant.
A Conservative Version
My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.
American Standard Version
My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
Amplified
My days are like an evening shadow that lengthens and vanishes [with the sun];
And as for me, I wither away like grass.
Darby Translation
My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass.
King James 2000
My days are like a shadow that declines; and I am withered like grass.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My days [are] like a lengthened shadow, and I wither like grass.
Modern King James verseion
My days are like a shadow stretched out; and I wither like grass.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My days are gone like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.
NET Bible
My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.
New Heart English Bible
My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
The Emphasized Bible
My days, are like a shadow extended, And, I, as green herbage, do wither.
Webster
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
World English Bible
My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
Youngs Literal Translation
My days as a shadow are stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.
Themes
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Only a handbreadth in extent
Topics
References
American
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 102:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Affliction In Light Of Eternity
10 From the face of thine anger and thy wrath: for thou didst lift me up and thou wilt cast me down. 11 My days declining as a shadow, and I shall be dried up as grass. 12 And thou, O Jehovah, wilt remain forever; and thy remembrance to generation And generation.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 14:2
And as a flower he will come forth, and will be cut down: and he will flee as a shadow, and shall not stand.
Psalm 109:23
As the shadow according to its declining I was gone: I was shaken off as the locust.
Psalm 144:4
Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away.
Psalm 39:5-6
Behold, thou gavest my days a hand-breadth, and my life as nothing before thee: but every man stood all vanity. Silence.
Psalm 102:3-4
For my days were finished in smoke, and my bones burnt as fuel.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who shall know what is for man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he will make them as a shadow? for who shall announce to man what shall be after him under the sun?
Isaiah 40:6-8
The voice said, Call And he said, What shall I call? All flesh grass, and all its goodness as the flower of the field:
James 1:10
And the rich, in his humiliation: for as the flower of the grass he shall pass by.
James 4:14
(Which know not that of the morrow. For what your life? For it is a steam, appearing for a little, and then invisible.)
1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass dried up, and the flower fell out: