Psalms 103:16
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Psalms 103:16 in other translations
| BSB | when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more. |
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| WEB | For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more. |
| ASV | For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more. |
| YLT | For a wind hath passed over it, and it is not, And its place doth not discern it any more. |
| DARBY | For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof knoweth it no more. |
| BBE | The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer. |
| Webster | For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and its place shall know it no more. |
What does Psalms 103:16 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 103:15-16
15-16. So short and frail is life that a breath may destroy it. it is gone--literally, "it is not." know it no more--no more recognize him (Psa 90:6; Is 40:6-8).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 103:15-18
How short is man's life, and uncertain! The flower of the garden is commonly more choice, and will last the longer, for being sheltered by the garden-wall, and the gardener's care; but the flower of the field, to which life is here compared, is not only withering in itself, but exposed to the cold blasts, and liable to be cropt and trod on by the beasts of the field. Such is man. God considers this, and pities him…
Psalms 103:16 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 103:16
- Isaiah 40:7
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
- Job 20:9
The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
- Job 14:10
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
- Job 7:6-10
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope. O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. …
- Genesis 5:24
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
- Job 27:20-21
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night. The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
- Job 8:18-19
If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Context
- Psalms 103:15
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
- Psalms 103:16
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
- Psalms 103:17
But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;
Psalms 103:16 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Que pasó el viento por ella, y pereció: y su lugar no la conoce más. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car le vent passe dessus, et elle n’est plus, et son lieu ne la reconnaît plus. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn ein Wind fährt darüber, und sie ist nicht mehr, und ihre Stätte kennt sie nicht mehr. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Saturabuntur ligna campi, et cedri Libani quas plantavit: |