Psalms 103:15 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 103:15

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

KJV

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ASV

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— he blooms like a flower of the field;

YLT

Mortal man! as grass are his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth;

DBT

As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth:

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

21 verses on the floor

Job 14:2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
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:
Isaiah 40:6
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:
James 1:10–11
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Isaiah 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;

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Voices1

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

Such a thing is man: God considers this, and pities him; let him consider it himself, and be humble, dead to this world and thoughtful of another. (2.) How long and lasting God's mercy is to his people (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 103:151PE 1:24 ISA 40:6-8
PSA 103:151PE 1:24 JAS 4:14
PSA 103:15ISA 51:12 PSA 118:6
PSA 103:151PE 1:24 JAS 1:10-11
PSA 103:15ISA 51:12 1PE 1:24
PSA 103:15ISA 51:12 ISA 2:22
PSA 103:151PE 1:24 PSA 37:2
PSA 103:15ISA 51:12 JHN 14:26-27

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