“ For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. ”
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 acco...
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.
CII. The title, which is unique in the Psalter, describes the contents of Psalms 102:1-11 very well. So far the Ps. is the prayer of a man in extreme affliction. The same may be said of Psalms 1...
like smoke. So some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vulgate; other codices read "in smoke". an hearth . charred wood.
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 ever...
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. My days are consumed like smoke - He represents himself (for the psalmist speaks in the name of the people) under the notion...
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....
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 Dav...
This Ps. belongs to the closing days of the exile, and utters the hope of Israel's restoration ( Psalms 102:13-22 ). The Psalmist has been supposed by some to speak simply in the name of the nation,...
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 P...
Psalms 102:1-28 Psalms 102:13-14 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...
the Cry of the Afflicted Psalms 102:1-11 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 ce...
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 tho...
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...
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...
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...
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 f...
Complaints in Affliction. A prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the Lord....
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 m...
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, esp...
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 charge...
It appears from Psalms 102:13-16 , 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 s...
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto Thee. Thoughts of comfort and complaint I. Thoughts of complaint ( Psalms 102:1-11 ). 1. Concerning bodily sufferings. (1) The physical an...
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...
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...
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 38:3
An hearth — An hearth is heated or burnt by the coals which are laid upon it.