Psalms 102:3–5
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
‖For my dayes are consumed like smoke: and my bones are burnt as an hearth.
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- ‖Alternative wordingOr, (as some reade) into smoke.
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
My heart is smitten, and withered like grasse: so that I forget to eate my bread.
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
‖By reason of the voice of my groning, my bones cleaue to my skinne.
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- ‖Alternative wordingOr, flesh.
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From verse 3
- James 4:14Rank 1 from verse 3
14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
14Whereas yee know not what shalbe on the morow: *for what is your life? ‖It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and then vanisheth away.
- Lamentations 1:13Rank 2 from verse 3
13From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
13From aboue hath he sent fire into my bones, and it preuaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feete, he hath turned me backe: he hath made me desolate, and faint all the day.
- Psalms 31:10Rank 3 from verse 3
- Psalms 37:20Rank 5 from verse 3
- Psalms 22:14–15Rank 6 from verse 3
14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
14‖I am powred out like water, and all my bones are out of ioynt: my heart is like waxe, it is melted in the middest of my bowels.
15My strength is dried vp like a potsheard: and my tongue cleaueth to my iawes; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
- Lamentations 3:4Rank 7 from verse 3
- Psalms 119:83Rank 8 from verse 3
- Psalms 38:3Rank 9 from verse 3
From verse 4
- Isaiah 40:7Rank 1 from verse 4
- Psalms 37:2Rank 2 from verse 4
- 1 Samuel 1:7–8Rank 3 from verse 4
7And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
8Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?
7And as he did so yeere by yeere, ‖when she went vp to the house of the LORD, so she prouoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
8Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieued? Am not I better to thee, then ten sonnes?
6¶ Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.
6¶ Then Ezra rose vp from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Iohanan, the sonne of Eliashib: and when hee came thither, hee did eate no bread, nor drinke water: for hee mourned because of the transgression of them that had bene caried away.
- Matthew 26:37–38Rank 6 from verse 4
37And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
38Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
37And hee tooke with him Peter, and the two sonnes of Zebedee, and beganne to be sorrowful, and very heauie.
38Then saith he vnto them, My soule is exceeding sorrowfull, euen vnto death: tary ye heere, & watch with me.
- Psalms 77:3Rank 7 from verse 4
- 2 Samuel 12:17Rank 8 from verse 4
- Lamentations 3:13Rank 12 from verse 4
- Lamentations 3:20Rank 13 from verse 4
- Psalms 102:11Rank 14 from verse 4
- Psalms 102:9Rank 15 from verse 4
- Psalms 143:3–4Rank 16 from verse 4
3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
3For the enemie hath persecuted my soule, he hath smitten my life downe to the ground: hee hath made mee to dwell in darkenesse, as those that haue bene long dead.
4Therefore is my spirit ouerwhelmed within me: my heart within me is desolate.
- Psalms 42:6Rank 17 from verse 4
- Psalms 55:4–5Rank 18 from verse 4
4My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
5Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
4My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrours of death are fallen vpon me.
5†Fearefulnesse and trembling are come vpon me, and horrour hath ouerwhelmed me.
- Psalms 6:2–3Rank 19 from verse 4
- Psalms 69:20Rank 20 from verse 4
20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
20Reproch hath broken my heart, and I am full of heauines: and I looked for some †to take pitie, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
From verse 5
- Proverbs 17:22Rank 2 from verse 5
- Lamentations 4:8Rank 3 from verse 5
8Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
8†Their visage is blacker then a cole: they are not knowen in the streets: their skinne cleaueth to their bones: it is withered, it is become like a sticke.
- Psalms 32:3–4Rank 4 from verse 5
3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old; through my roaring all the day long.
4For day and night thy hand was heauy vpon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
- Psalms 38:8–10Rank 5 from verse 5
8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
9Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
10My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
8I am feeble and sore broken; I haue roared by reason of the disquietnesse of my heart.
9 LORD, all my desire is before thee: and my groning is not hid from thee.
10†My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eies, it also is gone from me.
- Psalms 6:8Rank 6 from verse 5
- Psalms 6:6Rank 7 from verse 5
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Psalms 102:3
1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.
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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of consume. Sense 1: To destroy, use up, or bring to an end. Sense 2: To waste away or be exhausted.
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Sense 1: Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely. Sense 2: A like person or thing; an equal or counterpart. Sense 3: To please, choose, or regard with favour.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
Sense 1: The visible vapour or substance given off in combustion. Sense 2: As a verb, to emit smoke or vapour.
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Sense 1: Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of burn, meaning to consume, injure, heat, dry, or harden by fire or intense heat. Sense 2: To be on fire.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
A pavement or floor of brick or stone in a chimney, on which a fire is made to warm a room, and from which there is a passage for the smoke to ascend.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
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Psalms 102:4
Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.
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Struck, beaten, wounded, afflicted, plagued, defeated, killed, judged, or forcefully affected by a blow, weapon, disease, enemy, word, or divine act.
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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of wither, meaning to dry up, fade, lose freshness or strength, or waste away.
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Sense 1: Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely. Sense 2: A like person or thing; an equal or counterpart. Sense 3: To please, choose, or regard with favour.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
Low green herbage growing from the ground; by extension, plants used for pasture.
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To fail or cease to remember; to lose from mind; to neglect or disregard.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away.
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Psalms 102:5
A ground or cause; understanding or judgment; to think, discuss, or argue.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893
The deep inward or audible expression of pain, bondage, affliction, sorrow, burden, or longing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
Sense 1: To split or divide. Sense 2: To cling closely or remain joined.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
Sense 1: The natural outer covering of a person or animal; the hide or exterior covering. Sense 2: To strip off the skin or hide.
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102:1HEAR my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto thee.
102:1¶ Heare my prayer, O LORD: and let my crie come vnto thee.
102:2Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
102:2Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble, incline thine eare vnto me: in the day when I call, answere mee speedily.
102:3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
102:3‖For my dayes are consumed like smoke: and my bones are burnt as an hearth.
Selected passage102:4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
102:4My heart is smitten, and withered like grasse: so that I forget to eate my bread.
Selected passage102:5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
102:5‖By reason of the voice of my groning, my bones cleaue to my skinne.
Selected passage102:6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
102:6I am like a Pelican of the wildernes: I am like an owle of the desert.
102:7I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
102:7I watch, and am as a sparowe alone vpon the house top.
102:8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
102:8Mine enemies reproch me all the day: and they that are mad against me, are sworne against me.
102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
102:9For I haue eaten ashes like bread: and mingled my drinke with weeping.
102:10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
102:10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me vp, and cast me downe.
102:11My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
102:11*My dayes are like a shadow, that declineth: & I am withered like grasse.
102:12But thou, O Lord, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
102:12But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for euer: and thy remembrance vnto all generations.
102:13Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
102:13Thou shalt arise, and haue mercie vpon Zion: for the time to fauour her, yea the set time is come.
102:14For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
102:14For thy seruants take pleasure in her stones: and fauour the dust therof.
102:15So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
102:15So the heathen shall feare the Name of the LORD: and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
102:16When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
102:16When the LORD shall build vp Zion: he shall appeare in his glory.
102:17He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
102:17He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
102:18This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.
102:18This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created, shall praise the LORD.
102:19For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the Lord behold the earth;
102:19For hee hath looked downe from the height of his Sanctuarie: from heauen did the LORD beholde the earth:
102:20To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
102:20†To heare the groning of the prisoner: to loose those that are appointed to death:
102:21To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
102:21To declare the Name of the LORD in Zion: and his praise in Ierusalem:
102:22When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.
102:22When the people are gathered together: and the kingdomes to serue the LORD.
102:23He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
102:23†He weakened my strength in the way: he shortened my dayes.
102:24I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
102:24I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my dayes: thy yeres are throughout all generations.
102:25Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
102:25*Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heauens are the worke of thy hands.
102:26They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
102:26†They shall perish, but thou shalt indure, yea all of them shall waxe old like a garment: as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shalbe changed.
102:27But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
102:27But thou art the same: and thy yeeres shall haue no end.
102:28The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.
102:28The children of thy seruants shal continue: and their seed shall be established before thee.