Psalms 102:11

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

King James Version (KJV)

Other Translations

My dayes are like a shadow, that declineth: & I am withered like grasse.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

My days are like a lengthened shadow, And I wither away like grass.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
- American Standard Version (1901)

My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
- Basic English Bible

My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass.
- Darby Bible

My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
- Webster's Bible

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
- World English Bible

My days as a shadow [are] stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.
- Youngs Literal Bible

(102:12) My days are like a lengthening shadow; and I am withered like grass.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible

Bible commentary

Wesley's Notes for Psalms 102:11


102:9 Bread - The sense is, dust and ashes are as familiar to me as the eating of my bread; I cover my head with them; I sit, yea, lie down in them, as mourners often did.

102:10 Lifted me - As a man lifts up a thing as high as he can, that he may cast it to the ground with greater force.

102:12 Remembrance - Thy name, Jehovah, which is called by this very word, God's remembrance, or memorial, and that unto all generations, #Exod 3:15|.

102:13 The set time - The end of those seventy years which thou hast fixed.


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