Psalms 103:15
13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;
- KJV
- As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
- WEB
- As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
- ASV
- As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
- DARBY
- As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth:
- BLB
- A man—his days [are] like grass; like the flower of the field, so he blossoms;
- ÅB
- Et menneskes dager er som gresset; som blomsten på marken, slik blomstrer han.
- OTB
- Når det gjelder mennesket, er hans dager som gress;
Som en markblomst blomstrer han. - B1930
- Et menneskes dager er som gresset; som blomsten på marken, således blomstrer han.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Peter 1:24
For 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:
Read in contextJames 1:10–11
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Read in contextIsaiah 40:6–8
The 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:
Read in contextIsaiah 51:12
I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;
Read in contextIsaiah 28:1
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
Read in contextJob 14:1–3
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Read in contextNahum 1:4
He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
Read in contextIsaiah 28:4
And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
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