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Psalms 102:3
3For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers.
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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)For my days disappear like smoke, and my bones burn like red-hot coals.
Context of Psalms 102:3
1Hear my prayer, Lord; let my cry for help come to you. 2Do not hide your face from me when I am in distress. Turn your ear to me; when I call, answer me quickly. For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers. 4My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food. 5In my distress I groan aloud and am reduced to skin and bones.
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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 the wicked will perish: Though the Lord’s enemies are like the flowers of the field, they will be consumed, they will go up in smoke.
- Psalms 119:83Though I am like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget your decrees.
- James 4:14Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
- Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted within me.
- Psalms 31:10My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction, and my bones grow weak.
- Psalms 38:3Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.
- Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels; my body burns with fever.
- Lamentations 1:13“From on high he sent fire, sent it down into my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.
- Lamentations 3:4He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and 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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