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Psalms 102:3
3My life is quickly disappearing, like smoke from a fire. My bones hurt very much, as if they were burning in an oven.
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
1Lord, please hear my prayer! Listen to me when I call to you for help. 2Now that I am in trouble, please do not turn away from me. Listen carefully to me. Now that I am calling to you for help, please answer me quickly. My life is quickly disappearing, like smoke from a fire. My bones hurt very much, as if they were burning in an oven. 4I am very weak and upset, like dry grass that will soon die. I even forget to eat my food. 5I cry aloud with pain, so that I am just skin and bones.
Read all of Psalms 102Psalms 102:3 word by word
כִּֽי־כָל֣וּ בְעָשָׁ֣ן יָמָ֑י וְ֝עַצְמוֹתַ֗י כְּמוֹ־קֵ֥ד נִחָֽרוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 102:3
- Psalms 37:20But wicked people will die. They are the Lord's enemies. They will disappear like smoke from a fire that burns them up.
- Psalms 119:83I am like an old wineskin that has become useless. But I have not forgotten your rules.
- James 4:14You do not know what will happen tomorrow. Your life is like a cloud which appears for a short time and then it quickly goes away.
- Psalms 22:14My strength has gone, like water that is poured away. My bones do not join together properly. I feel weak inside and hope has disappeared.
- Psalms 31:10I am near to death, because I am so sad. I am crying with pain as my life comes to an end. I have so much trouble that I have no strength at all. Even my bones have become weak.
- Psalms 38:3Your punishment has made my whole body ill. My health has gone, because of my sin.
- Job 30:30My skin has become black, and bits of skin fall off. My body is hot with fever.
- Lamentations 1:13It is like God has sent fire down into our bones to hurt us. He wants us to turn towards him again, so he has caused things to be very difficult for us. All day he causes us to feel lonely and weak.
- Lamentations 3:4God has caused my skin and my whole body to become old. He has broken 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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