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Psalms 102:11 Cross-References
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“My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.”
Psalms 102:11 (KJV)
Commentary on Psalms 102:11
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass. This verse employs two metaphors expressing life's brevity and the psalmist's sense of impending death. "My days are like a shadow that declineth" (yamai k'tzel natui, יָמַי כְּצֵל נָטוּי) compares life to an evening shadow that lengthens as the sun sets, soon to disappear entirely into night. Natui (נָטוּי) means stretched out, extended, or declining—suggesting the day's end approaches.Shadow imagery for life's transience appears throughout Scripture (1 Chronicles 29:15, Job 8:9, 14:2, Psalm 144:4, Ecclesiastes 6:12). Unl...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Psalms 102:11
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“and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow”
“I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.”
“All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;,For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:,,,,,,,,”
“Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.”
“Cry! One said”
“in that he is made humble”
“that appears for a little time”
“you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath. Selah.,Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah., הִנֵּה טְפָחוֹת נָתַתָּה יָמַי וְחֶלְדִּי כְאַיִן נֶגְדֶּךָ אַךְ כָּל־הֶבֶל כָּל־אָדָם נִצָּב סֶלָה׃ ,Behold, Thou hast made my days as hand-breadths; And mine age is as nothing before Thee; Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah,38:6 ἰδοὺ παλαιστὰς ἔθου τὰς ἡμέρας μου καὶ ἡ ὑπόστασίς μου ὡσεὶ οὐθὲν ἐνώπιόν σου πλὴν τὰ σύμπαντα ματαιότης πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ζῶν διάψαλμα,38:5 Behold, thou hast made my days old; and my existence is as nothing before thee: nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause.,,,,”
“all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?”
“For my days are consumed like smoke”