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Psalms 102:3
3For my days have vanished in smoke, And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.
Psalms 102:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
- New International Version (NIV)For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For my days are consumed like smoke, And my bones are burned like a hearth.
Context of Psalms 102:3
1Hear my prayer, O Lord, And let my cry for help come to You! 2Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress! Incline Your ear to me; In the day when I call, answer me quickly. For my days have vanished in smoke, And my bones have been scorched like a hearth. 4My heart has been struck like grass and withered, Indeed, [absorbed by my heartache] I forget to eat my food. 5Because of the sound of my groaning [in suffering and trouble] My bones cling to my flesh.
Read all of Psalms 102Psalms 102:3 word by word
כִּֽי־כָל֣וּ בְעָשָׁ֣ן יָמָ֑י וְ֝עַצְמוֹתַ֗י כְּמוֹ־קֵ֥ד נִחָֽרוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 102:3
- Psalms 37:20But the wicked (ungodly) will perish, And the enemies of the Lord will be like the glory of the pastures and like the fat of lambs [that is consumed in smoke], They vanish—like smoke they vanish away.
- Psalms 119:83For I have become like a wineskin [blackened and shriveled] in the smoke [in which it hangs], Yet I do not forget Your statutes.
- James 4:14Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air].
- Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; It is melted [by anguish] within me.
- Psalms 31:10For my life is spent with sorrow And my years with sighing; My strength has failed because of my iniquity, And even my body has wasted away.
- Psalms 38:3There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation; There is no health in my bones because of my sin.
- Job 30:30My skin falls from me in blackened flakes, And my bones are burned with fever.
- Lamentations 1:13From on high He sent fire into my bones, And it prevailed over them. He has spread a net for my feet; He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and hopelessly miserable, Faint all the day long.
- Lamentations 3:4He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away; He has shattered my bones.
Commentaries on Psalms 102:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3My days are consumed like smoke - He represents himself (for the psalmist speaks in the name of the people) under the notion of a pile of combustible matter, placed upon a fire, which soon consumes it; part flying away in smoke, and the residue lying on the hearth in the form of charred coal and ashes. The Chaldeans were the fire, and the captive Jews the fuel, thus converted into smoke and ashes.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3For my days are consumed like smoke - Margin, “into smoke.” Literally, “in smoke.” That is, They vanish as smoke; they pass away and become nothing; they are spent in affliction, and seem to accomplish nothing. The idea is, that in his affliction he seemed to accomplish none of the ends of life. His life seemed to be wasted. This is often the feeling in trial: and yet in trial a man may be more useful, he may do more to accomplish the real ends of life…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3Smoke is an image of the temporary nature of life (Psalms 37:20; 68:2). The psalmist’s bones represent his whole being (see Psalms 6:2; 34:19–22).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-281-3. The terms used occur in Psa 4:1; 17:1, 6; 18:6; 31:2, 10; 37:20.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 102
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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