Psalms 102:3
1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
- KJV
- For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
- WEB
- For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
- ASV
- For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
- DARBY
- For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
- BLB
- For my days come to an end like smoke, and my bones like a burning [wick] have been charred.
- ÅB
- For mine dager er faret bort som en røyk, og mine ben er forbrent som en brann.
- OTB
- For mine dager har forsvunnet som røyk,
Og mine ben føles svidd som i en ildsted. - B1930
- For mine dager er faret bort som en røk, og mine ben er forbrent som en brand.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
James 4:14
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Read in contextPsalms 31:10
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Read in contextLamentations 1:13
From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
Read in contextJob 30:30
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Read in contextPsalms 37:20
But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
Read in contextPsalms 22:14–15
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Read in contextLamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Read in contextPsalms 119:83
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
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