Psalms 102:3
For my days consume away like smoke.My bones are burned as a firebrand.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
In Context
4My heart is blighted like grass, and withered,for I forget to eat my bread.
Cross References
Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels from me.My bones are burned with heat.
Psalms 27:9Do not hide your face from me.Do not put your servant away in anger.You have been my help.Do not abandon me,neither forsake me, God of my salvation.
Psalms 31:10For my life is spent with sorrow,my years with sighing.My strength fails because of my iniquity.My bones are wasted away.
Psalms 38:3There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation,neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
Lamentations 1:13From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it overcame them.He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back.He has made me desolate and faint all the day.NUN
James 4:14Whereas you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
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 →