Psalm 102:3 {101:4}
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For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.

my days

Psalm 37:20 Because the wicked shall perish. And the enemies of the Lord, presently after they shall be honoured and exalted, shall come to nothing and vanish like smoke.

Psalm 119:83 For I am become like a bottle in the frost: I have not forgotten thy justifications.

James 4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

like smoke.

Psalm 22:14,15 I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels. . . .

Psalm 31:10 For my life is wasted with grief: and my years in sighs. My strength is weakened through poverty and my bones are disturbed.

Psalm 38:3 There is no health in my flesh, because of thy wrath: there is no peace for my bones, because of my sins.

Job 30:30 My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.

Lamentations 1:13 Mem. From above he hath sent fire into my bones, and hath chastised me: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate, wasted with sorrow all the day long.

Lamentations 3:4 Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.

Context
The Prayer of the Afflicted
2Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me speedily. 3For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.4I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.…
Cross References
James 4:14
Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

Job 30:30
My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.

Psalm 31:10
For my life is wasted with grief: and my years in sighs. My strength is weakened through poverty and my bones are disturbed.

Psalm 37:20
Because the wicked shall perish. And the enemies of the Lord, presently after they shall be honoured and exalted, shall come to nothing and vanish like smoke.

Psalm 38:7
For my loins are filled with illusions; and there is no health in my flesh.

Jeremiah 20:18
Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion?

Lamentations 1:13
Mem. From above he hath sent fire into my bones, and hath chastised me: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate, wasted with sorrow all the day long.

Lamentations 3:4
Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.

Lamentations 4:8
Heth. Their face is now made blacker than coals, and they are not known in the streets: their skin hath stuck to their bones, it is withered, and is become like wood.

Lexicon
For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

my days
יָמָ֑י (yā·māy)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

vanish
כָל֣וּ (ḵā·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 3615: To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent

like smoke,
בְעָשָׁ֣ן (ḇə·‘ā·šān)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6227: Smoke

and my bones
וְ֝עַצְמוֹתַ֗י (wə·‘aṣ·mō·w·ṯay)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6106: A bone, the body, the substance, selfsame

burn
נִחָֽרוּ׃ (ni·ḥā·rū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2787: To be hot or scorched, to burn

like glowing embers.
כְּמוֹ־ (kə·mōw-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 4168: A fire, fuel, a conflagration


Additional Translations
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

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

For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick.

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

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

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

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

For consumed in smoke have been my days, And my bones as a fire-brand have burned.
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