תהלים 102:3

Hebrew Modern Translation

כי כלו בעשן ימי ועצמותי כמו קד נחרו׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
[102:4] בעשן ימי ועצמותי כמוקד נחרו

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
[102:4] כִּֽי־כָל֣וּ בְעָשָׁ֣ן יָמָ֑י וְ֝עַצְמוֹתַ֗י כְּמוֹ־קֵ֥ד נִחָֽרוּ ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
[102:4] כִּֽי־כָלוּ בְעָשָׁן יָמָי וְעַצְמוֹתַי כְּמוֹ־קֵד נִחָֽרוּ ׃

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.