Psalms 102:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַל־תַּסְתֵּ֬ר פָּנֶ֨יךָ ׀ מִמֶּנִּי֮ בְּי֢וֹם צַ֫ר לִ֥י הַטֵּֽה־אֵלַ֥י אָזְנֶ֑ךָ בְּי֥וֹם אֶ֝קְרָ֗א מַהֵ֥ר עֲנֵֽנִי׃

Transliteration

Not tastēr pāneḵā from me in yôm ṣar to me haṭṭê-to me ʾāzneḵā in yôm ʾeqrāʾ mahēr ʿănēnî

Grammar Details

*ʾal*: negative particle - do not
*tastēr*: verb, Hiphil imperfect jussive, 2nd masculine singular - hide
*pāneḵā*: noun, masculine plural + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your face
*mimmenî*: preposition + 1st person singular suffix - from me
*bᵉyôm*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - in day/when
*ṣar*: adjective, masculine singular - distress/trouble
*lî*: preposition + 1st person singular suffix - to me
*haṭṭê*: verb, Hiphil imperative, masculine singular - incline/turn/extend
*ʾēlay*: preposition + 1st person singular suffix - to me
*ʾāzneḵā*: noun, feminine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your ear
*ʾeqrāʾ*: verb, Qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I call
*mahēr*: adverb - quickly/speedily
*ʿănēnî*: verb, Qal imperative, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - answer me

Word Meanings

*tastēr*: hide/conceal
*pāneḵā*: your face/presence
*ṣar*: distress/trouble/adversity
*haṭṭê*: incline/turn/extend
*ʾeqrāʾ*: I call/cry out
*mahēr*: quickly/speedily/hurry
*ʿănēnî*: answer me/respond to me

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Classic King James Version text presented with Strong's numbering to link English words to their underlying Hebrew and Greek terms. Prioritizes literal/formal correspondence while enabling original-language word study.

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Reference numbers can disrupt continuous reading
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Referenced Verses

Jas 4:14 : 14 Whereas 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.
Lam 1:13 : 13 From 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.
Job 30:30 : 30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Ps 37:20 : 20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies{H8802)} of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume{H8804)}; into smoke shall they consume away{H8804)}.
Ps 31:10 : 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Lam 3:4 : 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Ps 38:3 : 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
Ps 119:83 : 83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Ps 22:14-15 : 14 I 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. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Ps 102:4-5
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4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
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Ps 102:8-11
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8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
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Ps 31:9-10
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80%
9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Job 17:1
78%
1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Ps 22:14-15
2 verses
77%
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.
Lam 1:13
77%
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.
Lam 3:4
77%
4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Job 30:30
76%
30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Ps 102:2
75%
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.
Job 30:16-19
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16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
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19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Ps 102:23-24
2 verses
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23He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
24I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
Lam 3:16
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16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
Ps 119:83
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83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Job 33:21
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21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
Ps 32:3
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3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Ps 143:3-4
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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.
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Job 17:11
74%
11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Ps 38:10
73%
10My heart panteth, my strength faileth{H8804)} me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Job 13:28
73%
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Ps 83:14
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14As the fire burneth{H8799)} a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire{H8762)};
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Job 31:12
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12For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
Ps 31:12
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Job 7:5-6
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Isa 9:18
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18For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
Ps 39:3
72%
3My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned{H8799)}: then spake{H8765)} I with my tongue,
Ps 143:7
72%
7Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Isa 38:12-13
2 verses
72%
12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Ps 89:46
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46How long, LORD? wilt thou hide{H8735)} thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn{H8799)} like fire?
Ps 141:7
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Ps 6:2
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2Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
Joel 1:19
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19O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
Job 6:17
71%
17What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Lam 3:11
71%
11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
Ps 6:7
71%
7Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
Job 17:7
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7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Job 22:20
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