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Psalm 102

Psa. 102:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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My days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
are like a shadow
tsel (Hebrew #6738)
shade, whether literal or figurative
KJV usage: defence, shade(-ow).
Pronounce: tsale
Origin: from 6751
i that declineth
natah (Hebrew #5186)
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
KJV usage: + afternoon, apply, bow (down, - ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Pronounce: naw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
; and I am withered
yabesh (Hebrew #3001)
to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
KJV usage: be ashamed, clean, be confounded, (make) dry (up), (do) shame(-fully), X utterly, wither (away).
Pronounce: yaw-bashe'
Origin: a primitive root
likek grass
`eseb (Hebrew #6212)
grass (or any tender shoot)
KJV usage: grass, herb.
Pronounce: eh'seb
Origin: from an unused root meaning to glisten (or be green)
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Eccl. 6:12• 12For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? (Eccl. 6:12)
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James 1:10• 10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. (James 1:10)

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Cross References

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My days.
Psa. 102:3• 3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. (Psa. 102:3)
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Psa. 39:5‑6• 5Behold, 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.
 6Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. (Psa. 39:5‑6)
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Psa. 109:23• 23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. (Psa. 109:23)
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Psa. 144:4• 4Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. (Psa. 144:4)
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Job 14:2• 2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. (Job 14:2)
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Eccl. 6:12• 12For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? (Eccl. 6:12)
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James 4:14• 14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. (James 4:14)
I am withered.
Psa. 102:4• 4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. (Psa. 102:4)
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Isa. 40:6‑8• 6The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
 7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
 8The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. (Isa. 40:6‑8)
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James 1:10• 10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. (James 1:10)
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1 Peter 1:24• 24For 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: (1 Peter 1:24)

J. N. Darby Translation

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