Psalms 102:3 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 102:3

For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Homily 28, on Psalm 101 (420)

For my days have failed away like smoke. For example, I was a little child, and while I know it not, I came into the age of youth, and again into full age, and while I know it not, I have grown old: and my days have failed away like smoke. But some people think themselves to be everlasting, and they persevere in their sin. And my bones are withered like a dry twig for kindling. By 'bones' he means strength itself.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 4 (1874)

For my days are consumed like smoke. My grief has made life unsubstantial to me, I seem to be but a puff of vapour which has nothing in it, and is soon dissipated. The metaphor is very admirably chosen, for, to the unhappy, life seems not merely to be frail, but to be surrounded by so much that is darkening, defiling, blinding, and depressing, that, sitting down in despair, they compare themselves to men wandering in a dense fog, and themselves so dried up thereby that they are little better than pillars of smoke.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
כָל֣וּ	kha.Lu	they have come to an end	H3615 →
בְעָשָׁ֣ן	ve.'a.Shan	in smoke	H6227 →
יָמָ֑י	ya.Mai	days my	H3117 →
וְ֝עַצְמוֹתַ֗י	ve.'atz.mo.Tai	and bones my	H6106 →
כְּמוֹ־	ke.mov-	like	H3644 →
קֵ֥ד	ked	a hearth	H4168 →
נִחָֽרוּ׃	ni.Cha.ru	they have been burned	H2787 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
James 4:14
You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
leads to
- 1 Peter 1:24
  For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
- Psalms 39:5
  You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- 1 John 2:17
  The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.
- Job 7:6–7
  My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
- James 1:10
  But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
Through
Psalms 37:20
But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.
leads to
- Psalms 68:2
  As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.
Through
Job 30:30
My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
leads to
- Lamentations 4:8
  But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
Through
Psalms 31:10
For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
leads to
- Psalms 32:3–4
  When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

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Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Psalms

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Psalms