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Selected Verse: Psalms 102:11 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 102:11 |
King James |
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| shadow . . . declineth--soon to vanish in the darkness of night. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
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 Kg2 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 Isa 38:8.
And I am withered like grass - See the notes at Psa 102:4. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| 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, Jer 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. |
4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.