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Read Full Chapter (Psalms 102) Psalms 102:3-4 KJV
"For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread."
Psalms 102:3-4 in Context (Verses 1–7 KJV)
1
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.*
2
Hide 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.
3
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.*
4
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
5
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.*
6
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
7
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.