Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 102:4
4My heart is suffering, withered like grass; I even forget to eat my food.
Psalms 102:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
- New International Version (NIV)My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.
- English Standard Version (ESV)My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread.
- New King James Version (NKJV)My heart is stricken and withered like grass, So that I forget to eat my bread.
Context of Psalms 102:4
2Do not hide your face from me in my day of trouble. Listen closely to me; answer me quickly when I call. 3For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace. My heart is suffering, withered like grass; I even forget to eat my food. 5Because of the sound of my groaning, my flesh sticks to my bones. 6I am like an eagle owl, like a little owl among the ruins.
Read all of Psalms 102Psalms 102:4 word by word
הוּכָּֽה־כָ֭עֵשֶׂב וַיִּבַ֣שׁ לִבִּ֑י כִּֽי־שָׁ֝כַ֗חְתִּי מֵאֲכֹ֥ל לַחְמִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 102:4
- Psalms 6:2Be gracious to me, Lord, for I am weak; heal me, Lord, for my bones are shaking;
- Psalms 42:6I am deeply depressed; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
- Psalms 55:4My heart shudders within me; terrors of death sweep over me.
- Psalms 69:20Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I waited for sympathy, but there was none; for comforters, but found no one.
- Psalms 77:3I think of God; I groan; I meditate; my spirit becomes weak.Selah
- Psalms 143:3For the enemy has pursued me, crushing me to the ground, making me live in darkness like those long dead.
- Job 6:4Surely the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks their poison. God’s terrors are arrayed against me.
- Job 10:1I am disgusted with my life. I will give vent to my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Lamentations 3:13He pierced my kidneys with shafts from his quiver.
- Matthew 26:37Taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled.
- Psalms 102:11My days are like a lengthening shadow, and I wither away like grass.
- Psalms 37:2For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender green plants.
- Isaiah 40:7The grass withers, the flowers fade when the breath of the Lord blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.
- Psalms 102:9I eat ashes like bread and mingle my drinks with tears
- 1 Samuel 1:7Year after year, when she went up to the Lord’s house, her rival taunted her in this way. Hannah would weep and would not eat.
- Ezra 10:6Ezra then went from the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib, where he spent the night. He did not eat food or drink water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.
Commentaries on Psalms 102:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4My 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 Chaldeans.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4My heart is smitten - Broken; crushed with grief. We now speak of “a broken heart.” Even death is often caused by such excessive sorrow as to crush and break the heart. And withered like grass - It is dried up as grass is by drought, or as when it is cut down. It loses its support; and having no strength of its own, it dies. So that I forget to eat my bread - I am so absorbed in my trials; they so entirely engross my attention, that I think of nothing…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4Like withered grass, the psalmist senses his life fading away.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. (Compare Psa 121:6). so that I forget--or, "have forgotten," that is, in my distress (Psa 107:18), and hence strength fails.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 102
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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