For my days vanish like smoke;(A)
    my bones(B) burn like glowing embers.
My heart is blighted and withered like grass;(C)
    I forget to eat my food.(D)
In my distress I groan aloud(E)
    and am reduced to skin and bones.

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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.

By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.

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For my days [a]are (A)consumed like smoke,
And my bones are burned like a hearth.
My heart is stricken and withered like grass,
So that I forget to eat my bread.
Because of the sound of my groaning
My bones cling to my [b]skin.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 102:3 Lit. end in
  2. Psalm 102:5 flesh

He has made my skin and my flesh grow old(A)
    and has broken my bones.(B)

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My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

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He has aged (A)my flesh and my skin,
And (B)broken my bones.

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