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Psalms 102:3
3Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn Your ear to me— in the day I call, answer me quickly.
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
1A prayer of the afflicted one, when he is faint and pours out his lament before Adonai: 2Adonai, hear my prayer, let my cry come to You. Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn Your ear to me— in the day I call, answer me quickly. 4For my days vanished like smoke, and my bones were burned like coals. 5My heart is stricken and withered like grass, so that I even forget to eat my bread.
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 37:20For the wicked will perish, and the enemies of Adonai will be like the beauty of the fields— they will vanish—vanish like smoke.
- Psalms 119:83Though I became like a wineskin dried in smoke, I do not forget Your decrees.
- James 4:14Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
- Psalms 22:14They open wide their mouths against me, like a tearing, roaring lion.
- Psalms 31:10Be gracious to me, Adonai, for I am in distress. My eyes waste away with grief, my soul and my body as well.
- Psalms 38:3For Your arrows have sunk deep into me and Your hand has pressed down on me.
- Job 30:30My skin has turned black on me; my bones burn with heat.
- Lamentations 1:13From on high He sent fire into my bones and it overcame them. He spread out a net for my feet; He turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.
- Lamentations 3:4He made my flesh and my skin waste away, 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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