Psalms 102:11

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.”

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BSBPD

“My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“My days as a shadow <FI>are<Fi> stretched out, And I--as the herb I am withered.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 102:11 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 14:2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
  2. Job 19:10He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
  3. Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
  4. Psalms 102:3For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
  5. Psalms 109:23I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
  6. Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
  7. Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
  8. Isaiah 40:6A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
  9. Lamentations 3:1I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.
  10. James 1:10But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
  11. James 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
  12. 1 Peter 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

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