Psalms 102:3
(102:4) For my days vanish in smoke, and my bones are burning like a hearth.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
In Context
4(102:5) Struck [by heat] like the herb and dried up is my heart; for I forget to eat my bread.
Cross References
Job 30:30My skin hangeth down black from me, and my bones are burnt from heat.
Psalms 27:9Hide [then] not thy face from me; reject not in anger thy servant, thou [who] hast been my help: cast me not off, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Psalms 31:10(31:11) For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing, my strength faileth because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Psalms 38:3(38:4) There is no soundness in my flesh because of thy indignation: there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.
Lamentations 1:13From on high hath he sent a fire into my bones, and breaketh [them] one by one: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath caused me to return backward; he hath made me desolate, sick all the day.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 102:2-12
Complaints in Affliction. 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. 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a 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. 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. 7 I… Read the whole commentary →