Psalm 102:3 For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers.

English Standard Version
For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

New American Standard Bible
For my days have been consumed in smoke, And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.

King James Bible
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

International Standard Version
For my days are vanishing like smoke; my bones are charred as in a fireplace.

American Standard Version
For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For my days are vanished like smoke: and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.

Darby Bible Translation
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.

Young's Literal Translation
For consumed in smoke have been my days, And my bones as a fire-brand have burned.

Cross References

James 4:14
Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

Job 30:30
My skin is black on me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Psalm 31:10
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

Psalm 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.

Psalm 38:7
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

Jeremiah 20:18
Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Lamentations 1:13
From above has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.

Lamentations 4:8
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin sticks to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

102:1-11 The whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; but here, is often elsewhere, the Holy Ghost has put words into our mouths. Here is a prayer put into the hands of the afflicted; let them present it to God. Even good men may be almost overwhelmed with afflictions. It is our duty and interest to pray; and it is comfort to an afflicted spirit to unburden itself, by a humble representation of its griefs. We must say, Blessed be the name of the Lord, who both gives and takes away. The psalmist looked upon himself as a dying man; My days are like a shadow.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

PSALM 102

Ps 102:1-28. A Prayer of the afflicted, &c.—The general terms seem to denote the propriety of regarding the Psalm as suitably expressive of the anxieties of any one of David's descendants, piously concerned for the welfare of the Church. It was probably David's composition, and, though specially suggested by some peculiar trials, descriptive of future times. Overwhelmed—(compare Ps 61:2). Poureth out—pouring out the soul—(Ps 62:8). Complaint—(Ps 55:2). The tone of complaint predominates, though in view of God's promises and abiding faithfulness, it is sometimes exchanged for that of confidence and hope.

1-3. The terms used occur in Ps 4:1; 17:1, 6; 18:6; 31:2, 10; 37:20.