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 are consumed away like smoke, and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand.

Behold, thou hast made my days a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. Selah

I go hence like the shadow that departeth, and am driven away as the grasshopper.

Man is like a thing of naught; his time passeth away like a shadow.

He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He flyeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one state.

For who knoweth what is good for man living, in the days of his vain life, which is but a shadow? Or, who will tell a man what shall happen after him under the Sun?

and yet cannot tell what shall happen tomorrow. For what thing is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

I am withered

My heart is smitten down, and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.

The same voice spake, "Now cry." And I said, "What shall I cry?" Then spake it, "That all flesh is grass, and that all the beauty thereof, is as the flower of the field.

and the rich in that he is made low. For even as the flower of the grass shall he vanish away.

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of grass; the grass is withered, and the flower falleth away,