"For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. {it is...: Heb. it is not}" — Psalms 103:16

Psalms 103:16 · KJV

“For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. {it is...: Heb. it is not}”

— Psalms 103:16

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

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 — Context

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.

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. {it is...: Heb. it is not}

But the mercy of the LORD {is} from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;

To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

Cross References

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? {wasteth...: Heb. is weakened, or, cut off}

Job 7:6-10

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

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.

Job 8:18-19

If he destroy him from his place, then {it} shall deny him, {saying}, I have not seen thee.