For I am become like a bottle in the smoke - Bottles in the East were commonly made of skins. See the notes on Matthew 9:17. Such “…

A bottle in the smoke. —The insertion of yet by our translators shows that they understood this as a figure of abject mis…

For I am become like a bottle in the smoke;

An old dried-up skin bottle, that is hung in the smoke of the tent over the fire, until …

For I have been as a bottle in the smoke. The particle כי, ki, translated for, might also, appropriately, be resolved in…

For I am become like a bottle in the smoke
Like a bottle made of the skins of beasts, as was usual in those times an…

The psalmist sought deliverance from his sins, his enemies, and his fears. Hope deferred made him faint; his eyes failed from looking out for this …