Holy Scripture

Psalms 102:15

A church father on this verse
“"The heathen shall fear Your Name, O Lord; and all the kings of the earth Your Majesty" [Psalm 102:15]. Now that You have pitied Sion, now that Your servants have taken pleasure in her stones, by acknowledging the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets; now that they have pitied her dust; so that man is formed, or ra…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 102

Source: Septuagint

Original

15As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so shall he flourish.

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In context

13As a father pities his children, The Lord pities them that fear him.

14For he knows our frame: Remember that we are dust.

— Psalms 102:15 —

16For the wind passes over it, and it shall not be; And it shall know its place no more.

17But the mercy of the Lord is from generation to generation upon them that fear him, And his righteousness to children’s children;

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