Psalms 102:3 · KJV
“For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. {like...: or, (as some read) into smoke}”
— Psalms 102:3
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.
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
Psalms 102 — Context
[A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD.] Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. {of: or, for}
2Hide 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.
3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. {like...: or, (as some read) into smoke}
4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. {skin: or, flesh}
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. {It...: or, For it is}
Lamentations 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.
Psalms 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. {the fat: Heb. the preciousness}
Job 30:30
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Psalms 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.
Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Psalms 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. {out of...: or, sundered}
Psalms 119:83
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; {yet} do I not forget thy statutes.