Psalms 102:3
What meaning of the psalms 102:3 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 102:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth."
What does Psalms 102:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth."
Verse Psalms 102:3. _MY DAYS ARE CONSUMED LIKE SMOKE_] He represents himself (for the psalmist speaks in the name of the people) under the notion of a _pile of combustible matter_, placed upon a _fire...
FOR MY DAYS ARE CONSUMED LIKE SMOKE - Margin, “into smoke.” Literally, “in smoke.” That is, They vanish as smoke; they pass away and become nothing; they are spent in affliction, and seem to accomplis...
Psalms 102 Christ the King in His Humiliation _ 1. In the place of humiliation and dependence (Psalms 102:1)_ 2. His enemies (Psalms 102:8) 3. The set time for Zion (Psalms 102:12) 4. The blessi...
CII. The title, which is unique in the Psalter, describes the contents of Psalms 102:1 very well. So far the Ps. is the prayer of a man in extreme affliction. The same may be said of Psalms 102:23 and...
LIKE SMOKE. So some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vulgate; other codices read "in smoke". AN HEARTH. charred wood....
FOR MY DAYS ARE CONSUMED LIKE SMOKE— Or, according to the original בעשׁן _beashan, in smoke._ "My afflictions have had the same effect upon me, as smoke has on things which are hung up in it; i.e. hav...
PSALMS 102 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Prayer of a Humbled One brings a Threefold Answer of Peace. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 102:1-11, A Humbled One's Complaint. Stanza II., Psalms 102:12-17, The FIRST...
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...
This Ps. belongs to the closing days of the exile, and utters the hope of Israel's restoration (Psalms 102:13). The Psalmist has been supposed by some to speak simply in the name of the nation, but it...
Psalms 90:106 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ A YOUNG MAN WITH TROUBLE PSALMS 102 JESUS SAID, "DO NOT LET TROUBLE STAY IN YOUR MIND. *BELIEVE IN GOD AND BELIEVE IN ME ALSO". (JOHN 14:1) "DESTROY THIS *TEMPLE...
LIKE SMOKE. — Or, _in smoke._ (See margin. Comp. Psalms 37:20.) HEARTH. — Better, a _brand_ or _fuel;_ so LXX. and Vulgate, Aquila, and this meaning suits Isaiah 33:14. (For the image see Psalms 22:1...
_[Psalms 102:4]_ כִּֽי ־כָל֣וּ בְ עָשָׁ֣ן יָמָ֑י וְ֝ עַצְמֹותַ֗י כְּמֹו ־קֵ֥ד נִחָֽרוּ׃...
Psalms 102:1 Psalms 102:13 show that the psalm was written when Zion was in ruins and the time of her restoration at hand. Sadness shot with hope, as a cloud with sunlight, is the singer's mood. The p...
THE CRY OF THE AFFLICTED Psalms 102:1 This is the fifth of the Penitential Psalms. Some hold that it is one of the later psalms, asking for deliverance from captivity; others, emphasizing certain Da...
This is a song of faith triumphing over affliction. Beginning with a prayer for deliverance, and a statement of the circumstances of suffering in which he then was, together with a recognition of thos...
For my days are (c) consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. (c) These excessive kinds of speech show how much the affliction of the Church should wound the hearts of the godly....
_Diseases. He had described captivity as an illness, Psalm ci. (Calmet) --- God graciously forgives sin, and removes bad habits. He preserves us from falling, and grants us the victory, with all our r...
I make no chasm in the reading of these verses, because they form together a complete detail of the state of the sufferer, and serve the better, in an united point of view, to interest our hearts in t...
3_For my days are consumed like smoke _These expressions are hyperbolical, but still they show how deeply the desolation of the Church ought to wound the hearts of the people of God. Let every man, th...
Psalms 102 is one of the most, perhaps the most, remarkable of all the psalms, and presents Christ in a way divinely admirable. Verse 10 (Psalms 102:10) gives the occasion of the cry with which the ps...
FOR MY DAYS ARE CONSUMED LIKE SMOKE,.... Which suddenly rises up, is easily dissipated, and quickly disappears; so sudden, short, and transient, are the days of man's life; see James 4:14 or "in smoke...
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. Ver. 3. _For my days are consumed like smoke_] Which the higher it mounteth the sooner it vanisheth. Some read it, in the sm...
Title. _A prayer of the afflicted_, &c. It was composed by one who was himself afflicted, afflicted with the church of God, and for it; and it is calculated for an afflicted state, and intended for th...
COMPLAINT OF ONE IN GREAT TROUBLE. A prayer of the afflicted, one in great misery and distress, when he is overwhelmed, Psalms 61:2, and poureth out his complaint, as from an inverted vessel, in a fu...
LIKE SMOKE: Or, (as some read) into smoke...
1-11 The whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; but here, is often elsewhere, the Holy Ghost has put words into our mouths. Here is a prayer put into the hands of the afflicted; let them...
LIKE SMOKE; which passeth away in obscurity, and swiftly, and irrecoverably. Or, _into smoke_; as wood or any combustible matter put into the fire wasteth away in smoke and ashes. MY BONES; the most s...
Psalms 102:3 days H3117 consumed H3615 (H8804) smoke H6227 bones H6106 burned H2787 (H8738) hearth H4168 my days - Psalms 37:20, Psalms 119:83; James 4:14 like smoke - or (as some read) into smoke m...
Kindly notice the title of this Psalm: «Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD.» I call your attention to it in order to remind you what charges...
CONTENTS: Sorrowful complaint of great afflictions and a believing prospect of deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: The greatest ease to an afflicted spirit is to unburden itself by a...
It appears from Psalms 102:13, that this psalm was written in Babylon, and near the time of the Jewish emancipation. It is highly prophetic of the greater deliverance by the Messiah, whose law should...
_Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto Thee._ THOUGHTS OF COMFORT AND COMPLAINT I. Thoughts of complaint (Psalms 102:1). 1. Concerning bodily sufferings. (1) The physical anguish of lif...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 102:1. The title, “A Prayer of one afflicted,” makes it clear that this is an individual lament. At the same time, it is certainly not individualistic: the “I” who sings thi...
INTRODUCTION It is impossible to determine on what occasion and by whom this Psalm was composed. Prof. Alexander and Hengstenberg regard it as a composition of David. But from internal evidence, espec...
EXPOSITION THE "title" of this psalm is altogether peculiar, being "a Prayer for the afflicted, when he faints, and pours out his complaint before Jehovah." This is clearly a general direction for th...
In Psalms 102:1-28, David begins with a prayer asking God to hear his prayer. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline...
James 4:14; Job 30:30; Lamentations 1:13; Lamentations 3:4; Psalms 119:83; Psalms 22:14; Psalms 22:15; Psalms 31:10; Psalms 37:20; Psalms
An hearth — An hearth is heated or burnt by the coals which are laid upon it....