Armenia in comments -- Book: Psalms (tPs) Սաղմոս
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tPs 102::3 My days are consumed like smoke - He represents himself (for the psalmist speaks in the name of the people) under the notion of a pile of combustible matter, placed upon a fire, which soon consumes it; part flying away in smoke, and the residue lying on the hearth in the form of charred coal and ashes. The Chald:eans were the fire, and the captive Jews the fuel, thus converted into smoke and ashes. Psalms 102:4 tPs 102::4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass - The metaphor here is taken from grass cut down in the meadow. It is first smitten with the scythe, and then withered by the sun. Thus the Jews were smitten with the judgments of God; and they are now withered under the fire of the Chald:eans. Psalms 102:6 tPs 102::8 They that are mad against me are sworn against me - The Chald:eans are determined to destroy us; and they have bound themselves by oath to do it. See a similar case related Act 23:12-14, where a number of Jews had bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had slain Paul. Psalms 102:9