Psalm 102:3
“For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.”
KJV
Read in Psalm 102Meaning
The images communicate bodily and emotional depletion. They are poetic descriptions of suffering, not a diagnostic formula.
The afflicted person pours out grief
Urgent petitions and images of weakness, isolation, humiliation, grief, and mortality.
Read carefully
The verse is poetic lament and does not establish that rule.
Reflection
Use the psalm's imagery to name the experience honestly.