Psalm 102:3

3 Denn meine Tage sind vergangen wie ein Rauch, und meine Gebeine sind verbrannt wie ein Brand.

Psalm 102:3 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 102:3

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" ^F3, as the Syriac version; his days were spent in great obscurity, in the darkness of affliction, temptation, and desertion; and in so much vexation, trouble, and uneasiness, as if he had lived in smoke all his time: and

my bones are burnt as an hearth;
on which fire is continually made for the preparation of food, and other uses: or as a "trivet", or "gridiron": so the Targum: or as a frying pan; so the Arabic version: the meaning is, that, through trouble and grief, his bones, the strongest parts of his body, the props and supports of it, were so weakened and enfeebled, the strength of them so exhausted, that they were as if they had been parched and burnt up, as the hearth by fire; see ( Proverbs 17:22 ) ( Psalms 22:15 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 (Nveb) "in fumo", Montanus.

Psalm 102:3 In-Context

1 Ein Gebet des Elenden, so er betrübt ist und seine Klage vor dem HERRN ausschüttet. HERR, höre mein Gebet und laß mein Schreien zu dir kommen!

2 Verbirg dein Antlitz nicht vor mir in der Not, neige deine Ohren zu mir; wenn ich dich anrufe, so erhöre mich bald!

3 Denn meine Tage sind vergangen wie ein Rauch, und meine Gebeine sind verbrannt wie ein Brand.

4 Mein Herz ist geschlagen und verdorrt wie Gras, daß ich auch vergesse, mein Brot zu essen.

5 Mein Gebein klebt an meinem Fleisch vor Heulen und Seufzen.