Psalm 102:4 “My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat m…”

Psalm 102:4

My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

World English Bible

My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

American Standard Version

My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.

Geneva Bible 1599

Mine heart is smitten and withereth like grasse, because I forgate to eate my bread.

Darby Translation

My heart is smitten and withered like grass; yea, I have forgotten to eat my bread.

Young's Literal Translation

Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

Bible in Basic English

My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.

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Cross references

“heart”

Psalm 77:3 Psalm 42:6 Psalm 69:20 Job 6:4 Job 10:1 Lamentations 3:13

Psalm 77:3 · BSB

I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah

Psalm 42:6 · BSB

O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon— even from Mount Mizar.

Psalm 69:20 · BSB

Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.

Job 6:4 · BSB

For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Job 10:1 · BSB

“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Lamentations 3:13 · BSB

He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.

“withered”

Isaiah 40:7 Psalm 37:2 Psalm 102:11

Isaiah 40:7 · BSB

The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

Psalm 37:2 · BSB

For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.

Psalm 102:11 · BSB

My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

“so that”

Ezra 10:6 Acts 9:9 Psalm 102:9 1 Samuel 1:7 1 Samuel 1:8

Ezra 10:6 · BSB

Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. And while he stayed there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the…

Acts 9:9 · BSB

For three days he was without sight, and he did not eat or drink anything.

Psalm 102:9 · BSB

For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears

1 Samuel 1:7 · BSB

And this went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival taunted her until she wept and would not eat.

1 Samuel 1:8 · BSB

“Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why is your heart so grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

Also

2 Samuel 12:17 Job 33:20

2 Samuel 12:17 · BSB

The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.

Job 33:20 · BSB

so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.

5Through my loud groaning my skin hangs on my bones.

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