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Psalm 102:26
They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
24I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.
25Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.
26They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
27But you are the same. Your years will have no end.
28The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”
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A garment wearing out makes even the heavens seem fragile, while the God addressed by this frightened, mortal speaker endures beyond everything he has made.
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Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.Both contrast heaven and earth passing away with what endures: God in the psalm and Jesus' words in Matthew.
Malachi 3:6“For I, the LORD, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.God's endurance in the psalm shares a thread with his declaration in Malachi that he does not change.
Isaiah 51:6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its …Both compare creation to a garment that wears out, contrasting its passing with God or the salvation he gives.
Luke 21:33Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.Both describe heaven and earth passing away, while affirming the endurance of God in the psalm and Jesus' words in Luke.
2 Peter 3:10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with …Both describe the passing of the heavens; Peter adds the noise and fire of the day of the Lord.
Revelation 6:14The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island was moved out of its place.Both use familiar objects to picture cosmic change: a cloak changed in the psalm and a scroll rolled up in Revelation.
Isaiah 34:4All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a …Both portray the heavens as subject to decay or removal through images drawn from things that wear out or fade.
Revelation 20:11I saw a great white throne and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the sky fled away. There was found no place for them.Both portray earth and sky as unable to last forever before God.
Matthew 5:18For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, …Both speak of heaven and earth passing away; Matthew connects that horizon with the enduring authority of the law.
Isaiah 66:22“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me,” says the LORD, “so your offspring and your name shall remain.Both speak of God's power over heaven and earth; Isaiah specifies a new creation that will remain before him.
Isaiah 50:9Behold, the Lord GOD will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.Both use a garment growing old to describe frailty, applied to creation in the psalm and accusers in Isaiah.
Job 14:12so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.Both speak of the heavens ceasing to exist; Job uses that horizon in his description of death's sleep.
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Fear for the future. aging. death and what comes after.
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These words come from someone pleading against death in the middle of his days. Fear remains part of the prayer, and the God he addresses will endure.
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