Psalms 102:3

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

For my days are consumed like smoke - or, as Hebrew-literally, 'in (into) smoke.' The very same expression which David in had used of "the enemies of the Lord:" "they shall consume into smoke" (cf. ). Hereby the ideal sufferer virtually complains that the lot of the wicked befalls him, though being righteous, (Psalms 101:1.) The low state of depression of the throne and the people is herein shadowed forth. And my bone are burned as an hearth - rather, 'as a firebrand;' 'as a thing burning.' So the Hebrew, , margin; . Pain rages like a burning in the innermost parts of my frame ().