the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Psalms 102:3
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For my days have vanished in smoke,And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.
For my days have been consumed in smoke, And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.
For my dayes are consumed away like smoke: and my bones are burnt vp as though they were a firebrande.
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
For my days are consumed like smoke, And my bones are burned like a hearth.
For my days are finished in smoke, and my bones are burned like a burning heap.
My life is passing away like smoke. My life is like a fire slowly burning out.
For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a firebrand.
For my dayes are consumed like smoke: and my bones are burnt as an hearth.
For my dayes are consumed awaye like smoke, & my bones are brent vp as it were a fyre brande.
I'm wasting away to nothing, I'm burning up with fever. I'm a ghost of my former self, half-consumed already by terminal illness. My jaws ache from gritting my teeth; I'm nothing but skin and bones. I'm like a buzzard in the desert, a crow perched on the rubble. Insomniac, I twitter away, mournful as a sparrow in the gutter. All day long my enemies taunt me, while others just curse. They bring in meals—casseroles of ashes! I draw drink from a barrel of my tears. And all because of your furious anger; you swept me up and threw me out. There's nothing left of me— a withered weed, swept clean from the path.
For my days have vanished in smoke, And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.
For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.
For my days consume away in smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace.
My days disappear like smoke, and my bones are burning as though in a furnace.
Don't hide your face from me when I am in such distress! Turn your ear toward me; when I call, be quick to reply!
For my dayes are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burnt like an herthe.
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are whitened as if they were burned.
For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a firebrand.
Hide not Thy face from me in the day of my distress;
For my days disappear like smoke, and my bones burn like red-hot coals.
For my days go up in smoke. And my bones are burned as with fire.
For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick.
For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.
For, consumed in smoke, are my days, And, my bones, like a burning mass, are scorched through;
(101-4) For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.
for my days vanish in smoke, and my bones are charred like a hearth.
For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.
For my days have ended in smoke, And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.
My life is passing away like smoke, and my bones are burned up with fire.
My life is disappearing like smoke; my body is burning like fire.
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.
For my daies han failid as smoke; and my boonus han dried vp as critouns.
For consumed in smoke have been my days, And my bones as a fire-brand have burned.
For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
my days: Psalms 37:20, Psalms 119:83, James 4:14
like smoke: or - as some read into smoke
my bones: Psalms 22:14, Psalms 22:15, Psalms 31:10, Psalms 38:3, Job 30:30, Lamentations 1:13, Lamentations 3:4
Reciprocal: Job 16:16 - face Job 19:20 - bone Job 33:21 - His flesh Psalms 6:6 - I am Psalms 22:17 - I may Psalms 31:9 - my soul Psalms 32:3 - bones Psalms 32:4 - moisture Psalms 35:10 - All Psalms 55:4 - My Psalms 63:1 - flesh Psalms 77:3 - I complained Psalms 102:11 - My days Psalms 143:4 - my heart Proverbs 17:22 - a broken Isaiah 52:14 - his visage Lamentations 4:8 - their skin
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For my days are consumed like smoke,.... Which suddenly rises up, is easily dissipated, and quickly disappears; so sudden, short, and transient, are the days of man's life; see James 4:14 or "in smoke" c, as the Syriac version; his days were spent in great obscurity, in the darkness of affliction, temptation, and desertion; and in so much vexation, trouble, and uneasiness, as if he had lived in smoke all his time: and
my bones are burnt as an hearth; on which fire is continually made for the preparation of food, and other uses: or as a "trivet", or "gridiron": so the Targum: or as a frying pan; so the Arabic version: the meaning is, that, through trouble and grief, his bones, the strongest parts of his body, the props and supports of it, were so weakened and enfeebled, the strength of them so exhausted, that they were as if they had been parched and burnt up, as the hearth by fire; see Proverbs 17:22.
c בעשן "in fumo", Montanus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For my days are consumed like smoke - Margin, “into smoke.” Literally, “in smoke.” That is, They vanish as smoke; they pass away and become nothing; they are spent in affliction, and seem to accomplish nothing. The idea is, that in his affliction he seemed to accomplish none of the ends of life. His life seemed to be wasted. This is often the feeling in trial: and yet in trial a man may be more useful, he may do more to accomplish the real ends of life, he may do more to illustrate the power and excellence of religion, than he ever did in the days of prosperity.
And my bones are burned as an hearth - Or rather, as faggots or fuel. Literally, “They are burned as a burning.” The idea is, that in his troubles, his very bones, the most solid and substantial part of himself, seemed to be consumed and to waste away. See the notes at Psalms 31:10.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 102:3. My days are consumed like smoke — He represents himself (for the psalmist speaks in the name of the people) under the notion of a pile of combustible matter, placed upon a fire, which soon consumes it; part flying away in smoke, and the residue lying on the hearth in the form of charred coal and ashes. The Chaldeans were the fire, and the captive Jews the fuel, thus converted into smoke and ashes.
