Psalm 102:11

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Summary

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

My days

James 4:14

I am withered

Bible References

My days

For my days were finished in smoke, and my bones burnt as fuel.

Behold, thou gavest my days a hand-breadth, and my life as nothing before thee: but every man stood all vanity. Silence.

As the shadow according to its declining I was gone: I was shaken off as the locust.

Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away.

And as a flower he will come forth, and will be cut down: and he will flee as a shadow, and shall not stand.

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?

(Which know not that of the morrow. For what your life? For it is a steam, appearing for a little, and then invisible.)

I am withered

My heart was struck and dried up as grass, that I forget eating my bread.

The voice said, Call And he said, What shall I call? All flesh grass, and all its goodness as the flower of the field:

And the rich, in his humiliation: for as the flower of the grass he shall pass by.

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: