Psalms 102:5
3 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.
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones.
- KJV
- By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
- WEB
- By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.
- ASV
- By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.
- DARBY
- By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my flesh.
- BLB
- From the voice of my groaning, my bone has clung to my flesh.
- ÅB
- For mine lydelige sukks skyld henger mine ben ved mitt kjøtt.
- OTB
- På grunn av min intense stønning,
Henger mine ben fast ved mitt kjøtt. - B1930
- For mine lydelige sukks skyld henger mine ben ved mitt kjøtt.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 19:20
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Read in contextProverbs 17:22
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Read in contextLamentations 4:8
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Read in contextPsalms 32:3–4
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Read in contextPsalms 38:8–10
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Read in contextPsalms 6:8
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
Read in contextPsalms 6:6
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
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