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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

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