Psalm 102:11
“My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.”
KJV
Read in Psalm 102Meaning
Human life feels fragile and brief to the afflicted speaker. The image names mortality without saying that a suffering person's future is hopeless.
Read carefully
It is the speaker's poetic expression of fragility, not a personal prophecy.
Reflection
Acknowledge mortality without erasing the psalm's later turn to hope.