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Psalms 102:11
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My days are like a lengthening shadow,and I wither away like grass.
My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.
My days are like an evening shadow that lengthens and vanishes [with the sun]; And as for me, I wither away like grass.
My days are like a lengthened shadow, And I wither away like grass.
My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
My dayes are like a shadowe that fadeth, and I am withered like grasse.
My days are like an outstretched shadow,And as for me, I dry up like grass.
My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
My life fades like a shadow at the end of day and withers like grass.
because of your furious anger, since you picked me up just to toss me aside.
My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass.
My life is almost finished, like the long shadows at the end of the day. I am like dry and dying grass.
My days are like a shadow that declines; and I am withered like grass.
My life is like the evening shadows; I am like dry grass.
My days are like a lengthened shadow, and I wither like grass.
My days are like a shadow stretched out, and I wither like grass.
My dayes are gone like a shadowe, and I am wythered like grasse.
My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
Because of Thine indignation and Thy wrath; for Thou hast taken me up, and cast me away.
My dayes are like a shadow, that declineth: & I am withered like grasse.
My dayes fade away lyke a shadowe: and I am wythered lyke grasse.
My days have declined like a shadow; and I am withered like grass.
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Mi daies boweden awei as a schadewe; and Y wexede drie as hei.
My days are like a shadow that declines; And I am withered like grass.
My days [are] like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
My days are like a shadow that lengthens, And I wither away like grass.
My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows. I am withering away like grass.
My days are like the evening shadow. I dried up like grass.
My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
My days, are like a shadow extended, And, I, as green herbage, do wither.
(101-12) My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.
My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
My days as a shadow [are] stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.
My days are like a lengthened shadow, And I wither away like grass.
Contextual Overview
A prayer of a person who is suffering when he is discouraged and tells the Lord his complaints.
Lord , listen to my prayer; let my cry for help come to you. 2 Do not hide from me in my time of trouble. Pay attention to me. When I cry for help, answer me quickly. 3 My life is passing away like smoke, and my bones are burned up with fire. 4 My heart is like grass that has been cut and dried. I forget to eat. 5 Because of my grief, my skin hangs on my bones. 6 I am like a desert owl, like an owl living among the ruins. 7 I lie awake. I am like a lonely bird on a housetop. 8 All day long enemies insult me; those who make fun of me use my name as a curse. 9 I eat ashes for food, and my tears fall into my drinks. 10 Because of your great anger, you have picked me up and thrown me away.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
My days: Psalms 102:3, Psalms 39:5, Psalms 39:6, Psalms 109:23, Psalms 144:4, Job 14:2, Ecclesiastes 6:12, James 4:14
I am withered: Psalms 102:4, Isaiah 40:6-8, James 1:10, 1 Peter 1:24
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 19:26 - they were 1 Chronicles 29:15 - our days Job 7:6 - swifter Job 8:9 - we are but Job 19:10 - I am gone Psalms 39:11 - his beauty Isaiah 38:12 - is removed Lamentations 4:8 - their skin
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My days are like a shadow that declineth,.... Or, "that is stretched out" s, which, though it may appear long, is soon at an end; as it does appear longer when the sun sets t, and departs from the earth: he reckons his life not by months and years, but by days; and these he compares to a "shadow", which has no substance in it; his age being as nothing before the Lord, and has much darkness and obscurity in it; his days being days of darkness, affliction, and trouble, and quickly gone, as man's life is; there is no abiding; see
1 Chronicles 29:15. Pindar u calls man the dream of a shadow:
and I am withered like grass; which in the morning is flourishing, is cut down at noon, and withered at evening: this is the case of all flesh, however beautiful and goodly it may look; it is weak, frail, and mortal; cannot stand before the force of afflictions, which quickly consume strength and beauty, and much less before the scythe of death; see Psalms 90:5.
s נטוי "inclinata", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator, Musculus, Cocceius; "extensa", Michaelis. t "Et sol crescentes decedens duplicat umbras", Virgil. Bacol. Eclog. 2. u Pyth. Ode 8.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
My days are like a shadow that declineth - The shadow made by the gnomon on a sun-dial, which marks the hours as they pass. See 2 Kings 20:10. The idea is that the shadow made by the descending sun was about to disappear altogether. It had become less distinct and clear, and it would soon vanish. It would seem from this, that the dial was so made that the shadow indicating the hour ascended when the sun ascended, and declined when the sun went down. See the notes at Isaiah 38:8.
And I am withered like grass - See the notes at Psalms 102:4.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 102:11. My days are like a shadow that declineth — Or rather, My days decline like the shadow. I have passed my meridian, and the sun of my prosperity is about to set for ever. There may be here an allusion to the declination of the sun towards the south, which, by shortening their days, would greatly lengthen their nights. Similar to the exclamation of a contemporary prophet, Jeremiah 8:20: "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved." There is now scarcely any human hope of our deliverance.
