The Prayer of the Afflicted
Psalms 102:3
In 11 translations
- BSB
- For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
- KJV
- For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.like…: or, (as some read) into smoke
- WEB
- For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
- ASV
- For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
- LSV
- For my days have been consumed in smoke, || And my bones have burned as a firebrand.
- YLT
- For consumed in smoke have been my days, And my bones as a fire-brand have burned.
- DBY
- For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
- DRC101:4
- For my days are vanished like smoke: and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.
- GNV
- For my dayes are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burnt like an herthe.
- JPS102:4
- For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth.
- LXXE101:4
- For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick.
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Original-language editions
- WLC102:4
- כִּֽי־כָל֣וּ בְעָשָׁ֣ן יָמָ֑י וְ֝עַצְמוֹתַ֗י כְּמוֹ־קֵ֥ד נִחָֽרוּ׃KJV:Ps.102.3
- LXX-Br101:4
- Ὅτι ἐξέλιπον ὡσεὶ καπνὸς αἱ ἡμέραι μου, καὶ τὰ ὀστᾶ μου ὡσεὶ φρύγιον συνεφρύγησαν.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- James 4:14You 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.
- Psalms 31:10For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
- Lamentations 1:13He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.
- Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
- Psalms 37:20But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.
- Psalms 22:14–15I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust…
- Psalms 119:83Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.
- Lamentations 3:4He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
- Psalms 38:3There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 102:4 in some Bibles
- 102:3 in most Bibles